ENG: The National Herbarium of La Paz has recently created a new collection of plant species with cultural and social use. I am happy to contribute to this new collection with a donation of a set of musical bamboo tubes, which I collected during my fieldwork among highland flute makers and lowland bamboo collectors. I […]
Month: March 2024
Vicente Ojeda and the Moseñada of the Huari Ponchos
ENG: Jesika and I had the honor to accompany Walateño musiñu specialist and musician Ignacio Quispe to the Altiplano community of Kolluhuma-Belén in Aroma province, where he met again after eleven years his good friend and musiñu musician Vicente Ojeda. Don Ignacio invited us to document his interview with Don Vicente, one of the initiators of famous Moseñada group called Huari […]
Proposal Musical Bamboos and KBAs Bolivia
ENG: On February 28th I participated at the final KBA-Bolivia meeting at the Institute of Ecology of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA) in La Paz. Several contributors and partner institutions have been present to discuss the final phase of the KBA-Bolivia project, which aims at updating the key biodiversity areas for Bolivia. I had the […]
Juan Granier Street in the 2020s: Coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath
ENG: The last time I visited the Walateño flute makers of Juan Granier Street at the Garita de Lima in La Paz city was back in 2017. I visited urban-based flute makers at their street stands (ay. qhatu) and conversed with them about musical bamboos and the future of their flute making activities. Last week, I came back and was […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 