Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138801275 ISBN 13: 9781138801271

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Guillebaud is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientifi c Research (CNRS), and member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CREM-LESC), based at the University of Paris Nanterre, France.

Review:

"Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound is a nice and welcome addition to a steadily growing corps of literature on sounds in and of the city. As scholarly reflection and theoretical deepening are profoundly important for me (and, I think, for the entire field of sound studies as well), the contributions written by Chandola, Guillebaud, Battesti, and Thibaud stand out as they go beyond the mere noticing of specific sonic events."

- Marcel Cobussen, Journal of Sonic Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138801275
• ISBN 13: 9781138801271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Guillebaud Christine