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Doing anthropology in sound
Author(s) -
Feld Steven,
Brenneis Donald
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2004.31.4.461
Subject(s) - performative utterance , sound (geography) , ethnography , anthropology , conversation , sociology , focus (optics) , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , communication , acoustics , optics , physics
Sound has come to have a particular resonance in many disciplines over the past decade. Social theorists, historians, literary researchers, folklorists, and scholars in science and technology studies and visual, performative, and cultural studies provide a range of substantively rich accounts and epistemologically provocative models for how researchers can take sound seriously. This conversation explores general outlines of an anthropology of sound. Its main focus, however, is on the issues involved in using sound as a primary medium for ethnographic research.