Papers presented at the 2002 Wenner-Gren Symposium, held in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.
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"The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues."--Jacket.
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Hearing cultures.
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Communication in ethnology, Congresses.
Intercultural communication, Congresses.
Music-- Social aspects, Congresses.
Sounds-- Anthropological aspects, Congresses.
Auditieve fonetiek.
Auditieve waarneming.
Communication in ethnology.
Culturele aspecten.
Intercultural communication.
Luisteren.
Music-- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.