American Ethnologist: Vol. 31, No. 4

Editor's Foreword - Virginia R. Dominguez

An ear on the cover? AE editorial colleague Steve Moon has come up with a photographic rendition of a man’s ear that is just too good to pass up for this issue of American Ethnologist I hope you will agree as you look through the offerings in the issue and read both within and across sections.  read more »

Abstracts from AE Vol. 31, No. 4

AE INTERVIEW

Doing anthropology in sound
Steven Feld and Donald Brenneis
Special web supplement to this article now online
Sound has come to have a particular resonance in many disciplines over the past decade. Social theorists, historians, literary researchers, folklorists, and scholars in science and technology studies and visual, performative, and cultural studies provide a range of substantively rich accounts and epistemologically provocative models for how researchers can take sound seriously. This conversation explores general outlines of an anthropology of sound. Its main focus, however, is on the issues involved in using sound as a primary medium for ethnographic research. [sound, epistemology, ethnography, documentation, media representation]  read more »

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