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Audio-antropologia: praktykowanie dyscypliny poprzez dźwięk
Audio-anthropology: practice of the discipline through sound

Author(s): Agata Stanisz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: anthropology of sound; audio-anthropology; audiography; acoustemology; knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The article pertains to the notion of audio-anthropology both as the methodology and the way of practice of the discipline through sound. The audio-anthropology should be understood as application of digital audio technologies relating to recording, editing, arranging, listening and publishing: a) cultural sonic manifestations, b) audio-representations. In other words, the audio-anthropology is the audio-production of anthropological knowledge. As an alternative way of „doing discipline” the audio-anthropology is the result of so called auditory turn which had raised the question of the authoritarianism of Eye – fundamental and irrefutable organ of insight into the socio-cultural reality. Practice of sounded anthropology casts doubt on oculocentric model of anthropological knowledge and leads to appreciation of sonic phenomenon and practices in a social life.

  • Issue Year: 42/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 305-318
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish