This workshop, organized by CAS-E alumnus Dr. Juan Rivera, is dedicated to the comparative exploration of hidden knowledges and ritual practices in four dimensions of life among contemporary indigenous groups in South America (and some comparable areas beyond this region): those closely related to sounds (i.e., production of music and other sonic beings), images (i.e., iconography and chromatism), bodies (i.e., rituals linked to shamanism, healing, witchcraft, and sorcery), and subsistence practices (such as fishing, hunting, agriculture, and herding). Invited guests will be mainly ethnographically trained social anthropologists, but also ethnomusicologists, sociologists, linguists and ethnohistorians, whose research would be preferably based on their own long-term fieldwork on contemporary indigenous societies of South America and beyond.
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