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About Alicia Santos
In 2021, Alicia Santos spent 14 months living with the Mentawai people of Siberut Island, not as an observer behind a notebook, but as a participant in their oral cartography project, helping transcribe ancestral navigation chants into a bilingual digital archive that now guides youth-led forest restoration. Her work rejects the colonial archive model: every recording is co-owned, every transcription reviewed by three community elders, and every publication includes a 'consent layer', a spoken audio preface affirming how the knowledge may be used, shared, or withheld. She doesn’t study culture as artifact; she studies it as ongoing negotiation, between memory and migration, ritual and radio signals, reciprocity and remote sensing. Her field journals mix watercolor sketches of ceremonial tattoos with spectral analysis of rainforest soundscapes, revealing how acoustic ecology shapes kinship terms in lowland dialects. This isn’t anthropology as translation, it’s anthropology as attunement.
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- “How did the Mentawai oral navigation chants change when mapped alongside satellite terrain data?”
- “What happens when a community withdraws consent from a previously published cultural recording?”
- “Can ritual silence be documented without violating its purpose?”
- “How do you distinguish between cultural adaptation and erasure in digital repatriation projects?”