The article by Luis Achondo and Leonardo Díaz Collao is now available in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. The article, “Sound, Precarity, and Mapuche Reality in Urban Santiago,” explores the role of sound during the Mapuche Llellipun ceremony in Santiago.

In the abstract, the CMUS research associates write: “Ceremonial sounds create an immersive experience that facilitates intercommunication between humans, spirits, and the ecosystem in a precarious eco-spiritual space, making audible a distinctively urban form of Mapuche thought and existence. By establishing and making perceptible human, non-human, and more-than-human relations, the production and sensation of sound reaffirm the often-denied presence of eco-spiritual forces and entities in the city—central components of the Mapuche living world.”