For a sonic anthropology
This article proposes a conjunction of acoustic, literary and archival approaches to fieldwork and anthropological writing. As a critique of the hegemony of the text in the anthropology of African religion it emphasizes subjective and embodied tactics. Set in a fieldwork context in Zimbabwe in the e...
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Journal des anthropologues
2015
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | This article proposes a conjunction of acoustic, literary and archival approaches to fieldwork and anthropological writing. As a critique of the hegemony of the text in the anthropology of African religion it emphasizes subjective and embodied tactics. Set in a fieldwork context in Zimbabwe in the early 1990s, it argues that the combination of sonic anthropology, archival experimentation and literary or performance practices hypothetically provide seductive opportunities for overcoming the traditional limits of the canonical text.Situated in a critical relation to select classic studies in symbolic anthropology, the essay proposes a solution. Artistic exhibitions of multi-media field data and the use of hypertext links in e-ethnographies which would connect the text with the audio-visual data out of which they are created could allow ethnographers to overcome the traditional logocentric limitations of textual representation. |
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