Acoustic Colonialism

Acts of Mapuche Interference

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

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English

Duke University Press
21 October 2025

Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Acoustic & sound engineering

Series: Dissident Acts

In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. CÁrcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. CÁrcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls ""acoustic colonialism."" From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Chilean literature, radio, and other media have exerted a historic role in disseminating distorted visual and sonic representations of the Mapuche. The enduring effects of what CÁrcamo-Huechante defines as the colonial ear - the entry point for these misrepresentations - reflect the logic of the Chilean settler nation-state. In response to these aural and sonorous figurations, contemporary Mapuche writers, artists, and activists have produced their own literary, radiophonic, vocal, and musical expressions. The voices, sounds, and discourses of these Mapuche productions contest and disrupt the acoustic colonialism that has dominated the soundscape of the territory designated in present-day cartography as central and southern Chile.

By: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 572g
ISBN: 9781478029298
ISBN 10: 1478029293
Series: Dissident Acts
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author’s Note ix Mañumtun/Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Disfiguring and Silencing of the Mapuche in the 1860s 34 2. Indio Pie: A “Mapuche” in the Mediascape 67 3. Listening Poetically: A Land That Resounds and Sings 94 4. Wixage Anai: Mapuche Voices on the Air 130 5. Enduring Listening and Sounds: The Contemporary Musics of Ngulu Mapu 168 Coda 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index

Luis E. CÁrcamo-Huechante belongs to the Mapuche People. He is a founding member of the Comunidad de Historia Mapuche and Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference

“Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante provides a radical critique of how to study indigeneity, sound, and their relation to literary and media history. With an approach that draws on Native American and Indigenous scholars from the North and South, he demonstrates the need to consider Indigenous scholarship as central to the interpretation of sound and voices in a settler colonial context while offering transformational readings of the Mapuche literary and mediascape. Acoustic Colonialism is a crucial book.” - Ana María Ochoa Gautier, author of Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia