Amanda Minks

Dr. Minks focuses on the ethnographic and historical study of music and language across cultures. Over ten years of research on the micro-politics and aesthetics of language socialization led to her first monograph, Voices of Play: Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (University of Arizona Press, 2013).

In this and other projects, she has explored the relations between cultural difference and social inequality, illuminating the everyday practices and institutional structures that reproduce and transform selves and societies.

Shifting these concerns to a historical lens, Dr. Minks' second monograph is entitled Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas(Oxford University Press, 2024). See other publications here