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Modern Explorer and Cultural Anthropologist

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?”

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Has Alicia Santos published any open-access ethnographic tools developed with Indigenous communities?
Yes, her co-designed 'Consent Canvas' framework is publicly available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. It includes modular audio consent templates, multilingual metadata fields for intangible heritage, and a time-bound usage scheduler that auto-restricts access after agreed periods. The tool has been adopted by six UNESCO-affiliated language revitalization initiatives across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
What is Alicia Santos's stance on AI use in cultural documentation?
She advocates for 'AI as scribe, not interpreter', deploying speech-to-text only for verbatim transcription, never for summarization or sentiment analysis of sacred narratives. Her field protocol bans generative AI from interpreting meaning, requiring all contextual interpretation to be authored solely by knowledge-holders, with AI serving only as a secure, offline archival bridge between analog oral practice and digital preservation.
Does Alicia Santos collaborate with Indigenous scholars as equal authors on publications?
All her peer-reviewed work lists Indigenous collaborators as first or co-first authors, with authorship order determined by community consensus, not academic seniority. She pioneered the 'Rotating Lead Author' model in her 2023 monograph on Andean textile cosmologies, where each chapter bears the primary authorship of the weaver who originated its conceptual framework.
How does Alicia Santos handle ethical dilemmas when documenting practices meant to remain unrecorded?
She follows the 'Three Thresholds Protocol': if knowledge is designated as unshareable, she documents only the decision-making process, not the content, and archives the refusal itself as culturally significant data. In one case, she co-authored a paper titled 'The Weight of Unspoken: Ethnographic Silence as Epistemic Practice' with a Yawanawá elder, analyzing refusal as active knowledge stewardship rather than absence.
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