Ignacio Contreras Ilabaca

With fieldwork experience in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he graduated in Sociology from the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) and has a Master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO-Ecuador). He is currently a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he participates in the Research Group “Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities” (AHCISP-UAB).

His lines of research are located between the indigenous ethnology of the lowlands of South America and visual studies. He specializes in cosmology, shamanism and Amazonian audiovisual artistic productions. In his doctoral thesis he researches the visual identity of the forest through the fabrication and circulation of poetics and visual aesthetics among an indigenous group of Tukano language from the Ecuadorian Amazon. He is pursuing his doctoral studies with a scholarship granted by the Advanced Human Capital Formation Program of the National Agency for Research and Development of the Government of Chile (2020-2025).