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07/07/25
 
Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage
Places, territories, sites, artifacts, practices and knowledge that constitute cultural heritage are common goods and are vital to people’s understanding of their past, present and future. However, uncommoning of such commons has been omnipresent throughout history in Latin America. Through colonialist and/or capitalist practices of dispossession, looting and illegitimate appropriation but also through neglect and […]
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Felix Uhl
27/09/25
The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People
The Creation of a Huni Kuin Song Archive between the Sacred Secret and the Struggle of Remembering
The idea of commoning evokes notions of openness, of transparency, sharing and solidarity. Often, we anthropologists share these ideals as we work together with our project partners and interlocutors who have their own commoning projects. This blog post intends to show the complex negotiations and the concurrent ethical stakes involved in the creation of a […]
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