‘Saa Ñu’ú’ / Birds Clay by Jorge Martínez Valderrama
Some of the sounds from ‘Saa Ñu’ú’ / Birds Clay come from bird-shaped instruments made of clay that have been played for millennia in the Mixtec region. The artist researched Mesoamerican musical instruments from the British Museum’s collection for the inspiration to create his soundscape.
Press PLAY on each audio to hear the sound of some of these bird-shaped instruments.
* To see the full exhibit visit the gallery across the street.
Dove
Bird Ocarina
Purepecha Duck
Whistling Vase
Bat Ocarina
Clay Flute
Biglobular Ocarina
Instruments played by the sound artist Jorge Martínez Valderrama and the Yodoquinsi band musician, Luis García Acevedo.
Publications related to women’s and maternal health with Wixárika communities by the author of this exhibition
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Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
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Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
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“You see, we women, we can’t talk, we can’t have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families
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Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
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Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 (Article number 243) 2018
Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
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