Abstract

MOLANO ZULUAGA, Juan Carlos. A non-indigenous ethnomusicologist in «listen» with the Emberá Chamí. Anthropologica [online]. 2020, vol.38, n.45, pp.41-59. ISSN 0254-9212.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202002.002.

This article is a proposal from a framework of theoretical-methodological nature based on the intercultural experience of hearing that the Colombian anthropologist Luis Guillermo Vasco had in the 70’s with the shamanic practices of the Emberá Chamí. This guideline, gives an insight into determining some questionings with respect to the fieldwork undertaken by this anthropologist concerning the listening; as an ear that cared and translated certain hearing significances to certain cultural settings. Meanwhile, these ethnomusicological interpretations are given from these guidelines and confronted by my insertion and participation in the fieldwork in an event of «toma» or intake of ayahuasca in the Emberá Chamí indigenous reservation from San Lorenzo.

The debate deepens in the indigenous conceptualization and imagination about the sound that deserves special attention in the auditory anthropology/ethnomusicology and that could confirm or contradict some theories as in the case of the Amerindian perspectivism. However, the intention here and based on that given intersubjectivity in the indigenous territory is to elicit considerations around an anthological concept that I would call »sonic perceptionism», which is assigned; as its name suggests, by the perceptions within a certain soundscape and its intangibility of territory(ies) and that could complement the perspectivist theory that supports its interpretations into a tangible corporality defined only by its visibility.

Keywords : Ethnomusicology; musical semiotics; indigenous.

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