Contributors

DOROTHEE JUDITH ARNDT
received her B.A. degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is currently enrolled in the master degree program Anthropology of the Americas at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. During a field research about the music culture at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, Mexico, undertaken by Arnd Adje Both in 2008, she served as a research assistant.

ROGER BLENCH, Ph.D
is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He completed his doctorate in Cambridge in 1984 in social anthropology and has since worked as a consultant in development. Since 2005 he has been the chief research officer for the Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. He has worked mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia but spent much of 2013 in Belize, visiting Maya sites. He has examined museum collections of musical instruments across much of Central America.

EMILY BROWN
holds a Doctorate in Archaeology from Columbia University with an emphasis on the cultures of the American Southwest. As an undergraduate she doublemajored in music and anthropology, and her dissertation research on the prehistoric musical instruments of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona allowed her to continue exploration in both those fields. After working for the National Park Service as an archaeologist for a number of years, she founded her own archaeology consulting firm in 2005. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she also gardens and keeps bees.

KONG F. CHEONG
a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA), is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in anthropology at the American University in Washington D.C. He received his master’s degree in anthropology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and has recently completed a yearlong Graduate Research Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. He has conducted research at over 200 archaeological sites in Belize, Mexico, the Southeastern United States, and Kenya.

CHRISTIANE CLADOS, Ph.D.
is a Habilitation Candidate in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Philipps University Marburg and elected member of the Institute of Andean Studies (IAS), Berkeley. She did her doctorate on the iconography of the Nasca culture, and is currently working on her Habilitation thesis on visual transculturation and the intercultural appropriation of art in colonial and post-colonial Peru. From 2003 to 2009, she conducted research and taught art and archaeology of the preHispanic Central Andes, and scientific illustrations at the University of WisconsinMadison.

JUAN PABLO ESPITIA HURTADO
Ph.D. cand., es Ingeniero Electrónico de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia). En la actualidad es candidato a Doctor en el grupo de Lutheria, Acústica y Música (LAM) del Instituto d’Alembert de la Universidad Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI (París, Francia). En 2012 obtuvo el grado de Maestría en Acústica, Tratamiento de Señal e Informática aplicada a la Música (ATIAM) de la Universidad Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI en coordinación con el instituto IRCAM. En 2008 obtuvo el grado de Magister en Ingeniería Electrónica con énfasis en análisis de señales de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá). Desde 2008 se encuentra vinculado al Departamento de Música de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), donde labora como docente e investigador en las áreas de audio y acústica.

JORGE GREGORIO GARCÍA MONCADA, Ph.D.
obtuvo el grado de Músico Compositor en la Universidad de los Andes en el 2000, donde realizó sus estudios de composición bajo la dirección del maestro Luís Pulido Hurtado. En 2003 obtuvo el grado de Maestría en Composición y Teoría Musical en TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, donde estudió con el Dr. Gerald Gabel. En 2013 recibió el título de Ph.D. del Departamento de Música de la Universidad de Birmingham en el Reino Unido, centrado en la composición por medios electroacústicos bajo la supervisión de Scott Wilson y Jonty Harrison. Desde 2008 es docente e investigador en las áreas de composición por medios instrumentales, electroacústicos y mixtos en el Departamento de Música de la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá.

PAUL F. HEALY, Ph.D.
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University in Canada. He received his B.A. Honors from the University of California, Berkeley (1970), M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1974) from Harvard University. His archaeological research over the past four decades has focused on the ancient Maya of the eastern lowlands (Belize). He has directed investigations at the early Maya sites of Blue Hole Camp, Cahal Pech, Caracol, Moho Cay, Mountain Cow, and Pacbitun.

ALEXANDER HERRERA WASSILOWSKY, Ph.D.
viene realizando investigaciones antropológicas de campo en los Andes centrales del norte del Perú desde 1996. Desde la ecología histórica enfocó las estrategias de asentamiento indígenas en las serranías de los Conchucos en el norte del Perú (M.A., Universidad Libre de Berlín, 1998) lo que dio paso a indagar el emplazamiento en el paisaje de la arquitectura mortuoria y ceremonial como una interfaz entre territorios e identidades (Ph.D., Universidad de Cambridge, 2005). Las prácticas rituales y dimensiones simbólicas del manejo del agua, incluyendo los paisajes sonoros de las trompetas en forma de caracol wayllakepa, son actuales temas de investigación (Investigador Marie Curie, Comisión para la Arqueología de Culturas no Europeas, Bonn). Libros recientes incluyen “La recuperación de tecnologías indígenas: Arqueología, tecnología y desarrollo en los Andes” y “Arqueología y desarrollo en América del Sur: De la práctica a la teoría”.

RICARDO HIGELIN PONCE DE LEÓN
es Antropólogo Físico egresado de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia y Maestro en Antropología Biológica por la Southern Illinois University en Carbondaledonde también trabajó como asistente investigador del Center for Archaeological Investigations. En la actualidad, es Maestro y Candidato a Doctor en Arqueología y Contexto Social de la Indiana University en Bloomington, así como asistente investigador del proyecto NAGPRA dentro del Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology. Se ha especializado en estudios de la bioarqueología oaxaqueña, especialmente en la región de los Valles Centrales y la Mixteca Alta. Además está interesado en las prácticas mortuorias tanto prehispánicas como contemporáneas, así como en la aplicación de normas éticas en el uso de materiales arqueológicos en la arqueología y bioarqueología en México y los Estados Unidos. Su última publicación intitulada San Miguel Albarradas: Interpretaciones culturales de un espacio funerario (con varios coautores) salió en 2013 en la revista Estudios de Antropología Biológica.

MARK HOWELL, Ph.D.
is the Director of the Winterville Mounds Park and Museum (2006-present), a 12-mound archaeology site in the Mississippi Delta. Prior, he taught Music History at Fordham University (1999-2006) and Hunter College (1999-2004) in New York. More recently he was a Senior Research Fellow with TOPOI in Berlin (2009-2012) where he co-organized the workshop: “Sound, Political Space, and Political Condition: Exploring Soundscapes of Societies under Change” (2011), and co-organized the “Klangräume” for an exhibition at the Pergamon Museum (2012). Recent publications include: “Origin and Meaning of the Hopewell Panpipe” in Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas – Mundo Florido: Arqueomusicología de las Américas 2 (2013) and “An Organology of the Americas as Painted by John White and Other Artists” in Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas – Mundo Florido: Arqueomusicología de las Américas 1 (2012). Upcoming publications include “A Possible Mississippian Ceramic Whistle,” co-authored with Jim Rees, and “Some Enigmatic Native American Artifacts: Audio Devices?.” He is a co-editor of the TOPOI publication featuring papers from the 2011 workshop, and the on-line publication International Study Group of Music Archaeology Handbook. Dr. Howell is currently working with colleagues developing a graduate program in music archaeology for the Berliner Antike-Kolleg.

RICHARD KEELING
is an ethnomusicologist known mainly for comparative and historical studies of North American Indian music. His master’s thesis (UCLA 1975) focused on melodic patterns in music of the Japanese shakuhachi(bamboo flute). From 1977 to 1980, he lived and conducted doctoral research on the Yurok Indian Reservation in Northwestern California. During the 1980s he directed projects returning sound recordings and other documents from museums and archives to the rural Indian communities from which they were originally collected. In the course of this work – intended primarily for purposes of cultural preservation and repatriation of tribal heritage – Keeling became fascinated by the possibilities of archival research and developed a deep respect and personal connection to early anthropologists such as Sapir, Kroeber, and others in the Boasian tradition. His book Cry for Luck(1992) interprets contemporary Yurok and Hupa Indian ritual music in relation to historical evidence of earlier spiritual practices which shaped its distinctive style. His bibliography of North American Indian Music(1997) contains a history of research on the subject and describes 1,500 sources published between 1535 and 1995. Keeling also studied music and culture of the Ainu and other northern peoples as a Senior Fulbright scholar in Japan. He was a professor in the Ethnomusicology Program at UCLA from 1988 to 1994 and also held positions at UC Berkeley and with the National Endowment for the Arts (Folk Arts Program).

ALEJANDRO MORRIS DE LA ROSA, M.A.
es músico e intérprete con experiencia de investigación en etnomusicología en Colombia y Perú. Recibió el grado de Magister en Antropología de la Universidad de los Andes. Se ha desempeñado como catedrático del Departamento de Antropología y actualmente es profesor del Departamento de Música de la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá.

TERRY G. POWIS, Ph.D./RPA
is a New World archaeologist in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. He joined the faculty at Kennesaw State University in August 2005, and is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology. He received his master’s degree in anthropology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an archaeologist who conducts research both in the Maya Lowlands of Belize, Central America and the Southeastern United States. He specializes in Maya pottery, diet and subsistence, and the evolution of complex societies. His recent research has focused on the origin of chocolate in the New World. He teaches Principles of Archaeology, Maya Archaeology, North American Archaeology, Indians of North America, Lab in Archaeology, and Archaeological Field Techniques.

JIM REES
holds a MA in anthropology from the University of Arkansas, is Vice President of the Arkansas Archeological Society, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Historical Association. He is very active in archaeological field work and has published articles in books and journals on topics ranging from traditional camp meetings to music archaeology. Recent publications include “Membrane Drums as Cosmic Symbols of Shamanic Portals in the Shell Art of Spiro, a Mississippian Mound Site in Oklahoma”, in Music and Ritual: Bridging Material and Living Cultures(2013); “The Breckenridge Flute Dated with A.R.F. Grant”, in Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society (2013) 373: 11-12; and “Musical Instruments of the Prehistoric Ozarks”, in Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society (2013) 361: 3-9. Mr. Rees was the recipient of two NEH Summer Fellowships, one to the University of Florida (1979), and one to the University of California at Santa Barbara (1988).

GONZALO SÁNCHEZ SANTIAGO
es Etnomusicólogo egresado de la Escuela Nacional de Música de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma deMéxico y Maestro en Antropología por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). Sus investigaciones abordan temas sobre el arte prehispánico y las culturas musicales mesoamericanas. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran capítulos en libros y artículos en revistas científicas y de divulgación (Arqueología Mexicana). Ha elaborado guiones museográficos para el Museo de las Culturas de Oaxacay el Museo Amparoen Puebla. Fue coeditor del libro Panorama arqueológico: Dos Oaxacaspublicado por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Actualmente es alumno del Programa de Posgrado en Historia del Arte en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

MATTHIAS STÖCKLI
Doctor en Etnomusicología por la Universidad de Zurich, es profesor e investigador asociado del Departamento de Antropología y Sociología de la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. De 2004 a 2012 trabajó como investigador en el Área de Etnomusicología del Centro de Estudios Folklóricos, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Es co-fundador de “Senderos: Revista de Etnomusicología”. Realizó estudios sobre diversos aspectos de la cultura musical indígena contemporánea y colonial de Guatemala y Mesoamérica, así como sobre los hallazgos musicales de sitios arqueológicos como Piedras Negras, Aguateca, Kaminaljuyu y Río Seco.