Name
Guillermo Luis WILDE
Position and Affiliated Institution
Associate Professor, National University of San Martin
Full Researcher, National Scientific Research Council of Argentina
Degree
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
Education and Academic Employment
2005-to date: Full Researcher National Scientific Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)
2008- to date: Associate Professor National University of San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2003 Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Buenos Aires University
1999 Licenciatura in Social Anthropology, Buenos Aires University
Research Topic
Religious Conversion in the missionary borders of Iberian Empires, circulation of visual and sonic objects and representations of the Other in Comparative perspective.
Fields of Research Interests
Indigenous History and Anthropology
Global Mission
Latin American Borderlands
Colonial Latin America and Asia in Comparative Perspective
Colonial Art and Music.
Academic Publications
Forthcoming: “Missionary Frontiers in Colonial South America: Impositions, Adaptations, and Appropriations”. The Oxford Handbook of the Borderlands of the Iberian World. Radding, Cynthia and Danna Levin Rojo (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press.
2015 “The Sounds of Indigenous Ancestors. Music, Corporality and Memory in the Jesuit Missions of Colonial South America”. Hall, Patricia (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship. New York: Oxford University Press.
2014 “The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (17th and 18th Centuries)”. Space and Conversion in Global Perspective. Giuseppe Marcocci, Wietse De Boer, Aliocha Maldavsky e Ilaria Pavan (eds.); pp. 175-213 Leiden: Brill.
2011 Saberes de la Conversión. Jesuitas, indígenas e Imperios Coloniales en las Fronteras de la Cristiandad. Buenos Aires: Editorial SB
2009 Religión y Poder en las Misiones de Guaraníes. Buenos Aires: Editorial SB.
2007 “Toward a political Anthropology of Mission Sound: Paraguay in the 17th and 18th Centuries”. Music & Politics II (Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara) [http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics].
Professional Affiliations
Full Researcher National Scientific Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)
Associate Professor National University of San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Honors
2015: National Museum of Ethnology Overseas Visiting Professor.
2013-2014. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researcher.
2010: Premio Iberoamericano Book Award de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
2010: chaire « Pablo Neruda », Institut des Hautes Etudes en Amérique Latine, University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
2008: Premio Latinoamericano de Musicología “Samuel Claro-Valdés” (Sexta Edición), Instituto de Música de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2004. Richard Carley Hunt Fellow, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological research. 2004.