Sound and Sentiment

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• Four additional periods of Bosavi field research in the 1990s moved my research framework from anthropology of sound to acoustemology. I coined this new term to join acoustics and epistemology, to argue for sound as a ca- pacity to know and as a habit of knowing. I needed a way to talk about sound that was neither a matter of critiquing the anthropology of music or lan- guage nor of extending their scope to include environmental ambiences and human-animal sound interactions. I wanted to have a new all-species way to talk about the emplaced copresence and corelations of multiple sounds and sources. I wanted to have a new way to talk about how, within a few seconds, and often in the absence of coordinated visual cues, Bosavi people know quite precisely so many features of the rain forest wor... (查看原文)

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• How can I now position Sound and Sentiment in relation to twenty-five years of research visits and the surround- ing before and after? How can I re-introduce a book that was once more new and surprising for the anthropology of Papua New Guinea, for the ethnogra- phy of expression and emotion, for experimental representation connecting text to sound and image? The only way to begin is to acknowledge how much has changed since the time of my dissertation (1979), the book’s initial publi- cation (1982b), and its second edition (1990a). The most radical changes are surely the stark local ones. Many of the people you’ll encounter in these pages are no longer alive, and many of the beliefs, practices, knowledges, rituals, and experiences described are either considerably muted or are no longer ... (查看原文)

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