Carolina Rodríguez Alzza visiting Graz

Carolina Rodríguez Alzza is instructor at the Department of Anthropology - Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is a linguistic anthropologist working with indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon. Her main interest is the interaction between language and culture in speech plays and verbal arts. For several years, she has been developing her fieldwork with Iskonawa people in the Ucayali Basin. Some of her publications are Rewinki – Canciones de la fiesta de toma de chicha de maíz (2019), ‘Entre el ‘vivir huyendo’ y el ‘vivir tranquilos’: los contactos de los iskonawa del río Callería (2017), Prefijos de parte del cuerpo en la lengua iskonawa (2017), Relaciones gramaticales en la lengua iskonawa (2015). She has organized the book Los diseños de nuestra memoria. Registro y continuidad de los diseños de los Iskonawa del río Callería (2020) and coedited the book Tradición oral Iskonawa (2018).