Dear All,
As you may know, the IUAES Inter-Congress, jointly organized with the
Canadian CASCA, will take place in Ottawa ( 2-7 May 2017).
It will include the panel AURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, in the stream Moving bodies:
sounds and resonance, now open to paper submissions ( deadline December 19,
2016). You are warmly invited to submit your paper proposal at:
http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/en/call-for-papers
Conference website: http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/en/index
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Below you will find the abstract of the panel. As you will see, the focus
is on sounds and soundscapes in an attempt to form a new subdiscipline in
anthropology, in a dialogue among various approaches and research fields.
For this purpose, we encourage presentations in both written and acoustic
forms, and we will ask the congress organizers to make sounds reproductions
possible at our panel.
AURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
We are proposing a new subdiscipline in anthropology, along the recent
focus on the senses, dealing with hearing and its importance in various
environmental and cultural situations. While perception and production of
images have given rise to visual anthropology, aural perception has given
rise to separate fields, such as the transference from orality to written
scholarly texts, or the registration and interpretation of soundscapes,
both natural and man-made; and above all, ethnomusicology. Bur ears are
what makes humans able to speak, and cultural meanings of noises are often
neglected in fieldwork. Ears control our movements, providing the necessary
equilibrium for walking and dancing, under various forms of cultural
control. The dividing line between noises and harmonious sounds is also
culturally defined, while all kinds of natural sounds are variously
classified and interpreted. The contributions of ethnomusicologists and
anthropologists in the field are rich (Feld, Seeger, Carpitella), but what
seems to be needed is an encompassing framework bringing together such a
variety under the common role of our sound perception. Ferdinand De
Saussure, the founder of struturalist linguistics, due to have a strong
influence in anthropology, started his analysis on what he called ‘image
acoustique’ (acoustic image), later defined as the ‘signifiant’. What the
proposed Aural Anthropology is trying to achieve is an expansion of this
approach to all possible perceptions and expressions of sounds and their
cultural interpretations.
In the proposed panel we encourage presentations bringing together sounds
and written comments, along with written papers.
Please, feel free to ask us directly any further informations.
Antonio Marazzi
University of Padua, Italy
Former Chairman of the IUAES Commmission on Visual Anthropology
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Francesco Spagna
University of Padua, Italy
Cultural Anthropologist
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