Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound

Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound
ISBN-10
1317625935
ISBN-13
9781317625933
Category
Social Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2017-05-12
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Christine Guillebaud

Description

This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of action or agency are attributed to them, and what bodies of knowledge exist concerning them. Contributors shed new light on these sensory environments by focusing not only on their form and internal dynamics, but also on their wider social and cultural environment. The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: milson.fr/routledge_media.

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