This multi-sited ethnography, which took place in both Rioblanco, Cauca, and Bogotá, analyzes the ways in which the Yanacona indigenous people, in the midst of their migrations, modify articulations between making chirimía and making territory in the unfinished construction of their indigenousness. In this way, beyond seeking to define a Yanacona culture or Yanacona identity, I analyze how from daily practices shared stories that guide their lives are woven and reconstructed. For it is from their presents that they merge projected pasts into future longings. Thus, understanding the new senses of the place implies analyzing how people position themselves in space and time. The Yanacona indigenous people have positioned the chirimía as the source of their indigenity. Recognizing that existing implies making a place, and precisely, to do chirimía is to become aware of the space that is inhabited by means of musical spatialization.
