Open AccessCurating the Fieldwork Playlist
Author(s) -
Kieran Fenby-Hulse
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
suomen antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.141
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1799-8972
pISSN - 0355-3930
DOI - 10.30676/jfas.v43i2.77751
Subject(s) - musical , assemblage (archaeology) , field (mathematics) , anthropology , sociology , digital anthropology , visual arts , history , art , anthropology of art , art history , archaeology , performance art , mathematics , contemporary art , pure mathematics
In this essay, I consider the music that has been chosen as part of the previous essays in this collection. I attempt to understand what this assemblage of musical tracks, this anthropology playlist, might tell us about fieldwork as a research practice. The chapter examines this history of the digital playlist before going on to analyse the varied musical contributions from curatorial, musicological, and anthropological perspetives. I argue that the playlist asks us to reflect on the field of anthropology and to consider the role of the voice, the body, the mind with anthropology, as well as the role digital technologies, ethics, and the relationship between indviduals and the community.