Publications
Peer-Reviewed Monographs
Giraldo-H, CE (2009) Ecos en el arrullo del mar: Las artes de la marinería en el Pacífico colombiano y su mimesis en la música y el baile, Prometeo/Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D.C.
Giraldo-H, CE (2018) Microbes and other Shamanic Beings, Palgrave MacMillan, London.
Thesis and Dissertations
Giraldo Herrera, C. E. (2003). Procesos de interpretación en sistemas biológicos. Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Biologist
Giraldo Herrera, C. E. (2007). Los mareños del Sanquianga y sus artes: la marinería del litoral nariñense. Departament of Anthropology. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. Master in Social Anthropology.
Giraldo Herrera, C. E. (2013). Sweet Dreams Rocking Viking Boats: Biocultural Animic Perspectivism through Nordic Seamanship. Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen. PhD in Social Anthropology.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Giraldo-H, CE (2004) “Navegación tradicional en el Pacífico del Suroccidente Colombiano”, en Diálogos revista seriada del departamento de Psicología, Vol. 3, Unibiblos: 211-232
Giraldo-H, CE (2013) “Las fibras de la armonía: energía potencial, intencionalidad y memoria de la cuerda y otros cuerpos”. Papeles de trabajo Revista electrónica del Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES) Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina (UNSAM) 7(11):62-85 ISSN 1851-2577
Giraldo-H, CE (2018) “Shamanic Microscopy: Cellular souls, microbial spirits” Anthropology of Consciousness. 29(1): 8-43.
Giraldo-H, CE & G Palsson (2019) “Corporate Skin: The Biosocial Relations, Tropes, and Institutions of Corporate Prosthetics” Journal of Material Culture 24(3): 360-380
Greenhough, Beth, Cressida Jervis Read, Javier Lezaun, Jamie Lorimer, Carmen McLeod, Amber Benezra, Sally Bloomfield, Tim Brown, Megan Clinch, Fulvio D’Aquisto, Anna Dumitriu, Joshua Evans, Nicola Fawcett, Nicolas Fortané, Lindsay Hall, César E. Giraldo Herrera, Timothy Hodgetts, Katerina Vicky-Ann Johnson, Claas Kirchhelle, Anna Krzywoszynska, Helen Lambert, Tanya Monaghan, Alex Nading, Brigitte Nerlich, Andrew Singer, Erika Szymanski, and Jane Wills (2020) “Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome” Palgrave Communications 6(1):18 DOI : 10.1057/s41599-020-0388-5
Giraldo-H, CE (2022) “Gutting empathies off the Shetland Islands” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 28(4) https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.13821
Giraldo Herrera, César E. and Giovanni Aloi (2022) Microbes and other shamanic beings in conversation. Antenna: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. 59 Special Issue Microbial Ecologies. 17-23
Giraldo-H, CE (2022) “Native sources to pragmatic Enlightenment, paths towards re-enchantment” Pragmatism Today, 13, (1), 37-49.
Senghor, Khadidiatou; Stefan Partelow; Cesar Giraldo Herrera; Isimemen Osemwegie; Anna Katharina Hornidge (2023) “Is incorporating the local socio-cultural dimension a key factor in Marine Protected Areas success? A case study of Joal Fadiouth, Senegal” Marine Policy 155. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308597X23002397
Giraldo Herrera (Accepted) “Dizzy Rhythms: Perspectival ethnography through oceanic becomings” Current Anthropology. Ms. No. CA-S-21-00379-R2
Giraldo-H, CE (Forthcoming) “Listening to microbe-spirits dancing: more-than-imagined dreams and emerging infectious diplomacies” In Gatt Caroline and Peter Loovers (Eds) Beyond Perception. Routledge
Book Reviews and Position Papers
Giraldo-H, CE (2013) “Sarah Mehlop Strong, Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shin’yōshū” Sibirica 12(2): 98-100
Giraldo-H, CE & Gisli Palsson (2014) “The Forest and the Trees” Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think Symposium. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (2): 237–243
Giraldo-H, CE (2017) “Review article: Religion beyond belief, shamanism beyond religion: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella. Thunder shaman: making history with Mapuche spirits in Chile and Patagonia. xiii, 288 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2016. Bull, Michael, & Jon P., Mitchell, (eds). Ritual, performance and the senses. x, 208 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Jokic, Zeljko. The living ancestors: shamanism, cosmos and cultural change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco. xv, 280 pp., map, fig., illus., bibliogr. London, New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23 (4) 823-826.
Giraldo-H, CE (2019) “Juno Salazar Parreñas, Decolonising Extinction: The Work of Care in Orang-utan Rehabilitation” Anthropological Notebooks 25(3) 97-100
Giraldo-H, CE (2020) “Ulrich Oslender, The geographies of social movements: Afro-Colombian mobilisation and the aquatic space” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23 (4) 823-826.
Public engagement and dissemination
Giraldo H., CE, – Islands Songs – 2017 “Sonic Fabulation: Hearing Microbial spirits” YNK. Produced by Perret, Nicolas and Silvia Ploner – Islands Songs – for SAVVY Funk, documenta 14 radio, Berlin. Available at: https://www.mixcloud.com/discover/c%C3%A9sar-enrique-giraldo-herrera/
Giraldo H., CE, – Islands Songs – (2017) “Cosmic diplomacies” YNK: Electronic Animisms, Cosmic Diplomacies, Sonic Fabulations, Blasted Landscapes, Abundant Futures, Field Studies (A series of radio shows unfolding a plurality of sonic expressions, imaginaries and thought, YNK interrogates relations to nonhumans, nature, bodies, and matter). Produced by Perret, Nicolas and Silvia Ploner – Islands Songs – for SAVVY Funk, Documenta 14 radio, Berlin. Available at: https://www.mixcloud.com/discover/c%C3%A9sar-enrique-giraldo-herrera/
Giraldo H., CE, – Islands Songs – (2018) The forest within, within the forest: Sonic Fabulation – Soundart installation. September 7–November 10, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. To be broadcasted by Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Kultur Radio September 12 2019. https://soundcloud.com/perret-ploner/tfw-one-piece (Excerpt).
Giraldo H. CE (2019) “Do Ayahuasca Shamans See Microbial Worlds in Their Visions?” Kahpi Magazine April. https://kahpi.net/ayahuasca-shamans-microbes-visions/
Giraldo H, CE (2019) “Microbes, not spirits” Interview by Paulo Fernando-Lévano, Festivaletteratura/ Scienceground, Mantova, Italy, September 4-8.
Giraldo-H CE and Island Songs 2021 “One thousand agendas” two-day workshop for Somatic Charting. The House is the Body. Convened by Elena Basteri and Benjamin Busch The Institute for Endotic Research. Berlin, November 27-28th.
La Quinta del Lobo & Giraldo-H-CE (2022) Microbios y otros seres chámanicos. Creative Grant Video Art Dome Format of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Planetario Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia December 4th.
Courses
2023 Surroundings, Insights and Challenges of Environmental Anthropology, PhD Anthropology, Ilia State University
2023 Multispecies justice for more-than-human communities, BA Anthropology, University of Bremen, Germany
2023 North Sea Seminar, BA, Anthropology, University of Bremen
2023 Laboratory Amerindian Perspectivism and the Magic of Realism As part of a journey, University for the Arts Bremen
2021 Dreaming enchanting futures University for the Arts, Bremen, Germany
2021 Seminario Mariscado, Ocean Peoples Maritime Anthropologies, BA Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
2021 Lecturer Ocean Peoples Maritime Anthropologies, BA, Department of Anthropology, University of Bremen
2019 Anthropological Interpretation, BSc Human Sciences, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
2017 Anthropological Interpretation, BSc Human Sciences, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
2016 Anthropology of the Senses (BA BSc) Wadham College, University of Oxford
2014 Body and Society, (BA and PhD) University of Iceland
2011 Oceans and Society (BA, BS), University of Aberdeen
- -11 Introduction to Anthropology II, Questions of Diversity (BA), University of Aberdeen
2008, -10 Introduction to Anthropology I. Peoples of the World (BA), University of Aberdeen
2005, -07 Fundaments of Archaeology, (BA) Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
2006 Community and Society in the Central Andes, (BA) Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes
2005, -07 Amerindian Productive Technologies , (BA) Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes