The 12th Chilean Congress of Anthropology, entitled “Anthropologies and Divergences,” will take place from Monday, January 5th to Friday, January 10th, 2026 at the Arturo Prat University (UNAP) in Victoria, Araucanía Region. At this event, Andrea Chamorro is coordinating the symposium “Divergences in Dances and Performances: Bodies in Motion,” in which the CMUS researcher will present the paper “Transformations and Re-existence of the Takis: Singing and Dancing Animating the World of the Andes.”

Other members of CMUS will also participate. Carla Pinochet will be presenting the collection “Contemporary Anthropologies,” along with Marcelo González and Piergiorgio Di Giminiani. The CMUS deputy director, along with Laura Jordán, Daniel Domingo, and Ricardo Greene, will give the presentations “Towards an Aural Ethnography: On Participatory Methodologies and Sensory Research” and “Aural Territories: Migration and Sonic Disputes in Santiago, Chile.” These two presentations are based on the Fondecyt Regular project led by Carla Pinochet, entitled “Sonic Cultures in Conflict: An Aural Study of Intercultural and Interspecies Coexistence in Urban and Rural Territories of Chile.” The full Congress program is available here.

The first presentation “seeks to develop a reflection on the limits and possibilities of sound methodologies for social research. At the intersection of the ethnographic perspective and the sensory approaches of sound and listening studies, we will present a reflective assessment of the (still ongoing) implementation of a methodological strategy based on ‘sonic autoethnographies,’ ‘in-depth aural interviews,’ ‘aural focus groups,’ and ‘micropolitical archives’ of aural conflict.” The second presentation “examines how Venezuelan migrant communities in Santiago, Chile, inhabit and reconfigure urban space through sound practices. Using the conceptual framework of sound and aural studies, we propose understanding the production and management of sound/noise not only as a consequence of human mobility, but also as an active device for territorialization and ‘making a home.'”

Presentation “Towards an aural ethnography: on participatory methodologies and sensory research”

Tuesday, January 6th, 3:00 p.m.
Presentation “Contemporary Anthropologies”

Room PACE

Tuesday, January 6th, 5:00 p.m.
Room 211, UNAP

Presentation “Aural Territories: Migration and Sonic Disputes in Santiago, Chile”

Wednesday, January 7, 11:00 a.m.

Room 1013

“Transformations and re-existence of the Takis: the singing-dancing animating the world of the Andes”

Wednesday, January 7, 09:00 to 13:10

PACE Room, UNAP-Victoria Campus