Ethnographic practice in transition
Public workshop in Jena
The UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Music Studies invites you to the public workshop “Ethnographic practice in transition: collaborative, cooperative, decolonial?” at the University of Jena on Saturday, January 24.
The workshop will be led by Edilson Kuruaya and Bruno Britto and will offer a critical reflection on collaborative and decolonial ethnographic practices. In particular, it will highlight the active role of indigenous researchers in processes of collaborative research, interpretation, and the circulation of academic and museological knowledge. The workshop will also open a discussion on ethical protocols for dealing with music and accessing objects and artifacts preserved in museums.
The workshop is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the project “Resocialization of Sound: Collaboration in Research, Archiving and Dissemination with Amazonian Collectives”, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Matthias Lewy, who currently holds the Chair of Transcultural Music Studies (TMS) at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss Edilson Kuruaya's research on the music and instruments of the Kuruaya, based at the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) and the Laboratory of Ethnomusicology (LABETNO), as well as to address the collaboration between Edilson and the project “Resocialization of Sound: Collaboration in Research, Archiving and Dissemination with Amazonian Collectives” in line with current concepts of ethnographic practice.
The Kuruaya live both in the urban context of the city of Altamira and in villages on the Curuá and Iriri rivers, which are tributaries of the Xingu River. Altamira is a municipality in the Médio Xingu region in the state of Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Further information can be found here.
[19.01.2026]