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p>TALK WITH PEDRO LOLLI (UFSCar)
Sound pharmacology in the upper Rio Negro: (re)generation and degeneration of bodies
Based on the region of the upper Rio Negro and my ethnographic experience with the Yuhupdeh people, I intend to reflect on healing and protective blessings, Jurupari wind instruments and their associations with the processes of (re)generation and degeneration of bodies. I propose to approach the blessings and Jurupari instruments as an androgynous technology of artifactual insemination that not only (re)generates bodies, but also degenerates them, in the manner of a sound pharmacology. To this end, I will use as an ethnographic basis a set of stories from the past told by various peoples who inhabit the upper Rio Negro region (Tukano, Yuhupdeh, Hupd’äh, Desano, etc.) that tell about the origins of the blessings and Jurupari instruments; a set of anthropological works, some of them produced by indigenous people from the region, that deal with the subject; and finally, a set of ethnographic material of sound recordings of Jurupari instruments and the verbal forms of the blessings carried out throughout my ethnographic research.