Sonorismo indígena y ciclos cosmológicos del agua en el Piedemonte Andino-Amazónico

Abstract

In recent years, contemporary debates about the so-called “ontological turn” have begun to echo in the field of sound-musical studies and ethnomusicology. Likewise, in the course of three field seasons in the Andean-Amazonian Piedemonte, testimonies have been collected about the relationship between music and water: serene instruments near rivers, sounds of violins appeasing storms and wise men receiving music in pools. Motivated by these theoretical debates and these ethnographic evidences, this article is the result of an anthropological research in Mosetén Territory with the intention of relating indigenous sound with the cosmological circulation of water.