Essays about: "Sebastian Hachmeyer"

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  1. 1. Attracting and banning Ankari: Musical and Climate Change in the Kallawaya Region in Northern Bolivia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Sebastian Hachmeyer; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In the Kallawaya region in the Northern Bolivian Andes musical practices are closely related to the social, natural and spiritual environment: This is evident during the process of constructing and tuning instruments, but also during activities in the agrarian cycle, collective ritual and healing practices, as means of communication with the ancestors and, based on a Kallawaya perspective, during the critical involvement in influencing local weather events. In order to understand the complexity of climate change in the Kallawaya region beyond Western ontological principles the latter is of great importance. READ MORE