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 structuralist 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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