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An original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in which several modes of listening are simultaneously in play and in which different layers of auditory knowledge and experience coexist. Engaging withSound Studies, the Anthropology of the Senses, Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies in this volume, Tom Rice shows how sound and listening produce, articulate and mediate social relations inside the hospital; how listening acquires direction and focus within that environment; and how certain sounds become endowed with particular meanings and associations. He also exposes many of the sensory minutiae that both underpin and underminethe production of medical knowledge and skill. Hearing and the Hospital creates an acoustic interrogation of hospital life, and in doing so questions accepted ideas about the sense of hearing itself.There's a great deal to admire in Tom Rice's ethnography of the aural politics of the hospital. First because it represents a unique conjunction of the ethnography of sound and senses with medical anthropology and social studies ofscience. Next because it patiently details how sound as a way of knowing so deeply informs social practices of medical listening. And finally because it is so successful in revealing both how hospitals and bodies pulse as acousticspaces, and how patients and doctors professionalize, personalize, and participate as situated listeners.(Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico).Tom Rice is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, and specializes in auditory culture. As well as writing and teaching on sound he has produced audio pieces including the BBC Radio 4 feature The Art of Water Music.

Based on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, the author investigates the role that landscape, with its material presences and absences, plays in evoking and maintaining the border. The ethnography probes themes of ethnicity, religious practice, memory and space, investigating the border as a dynamic social process.By immersing herself in the everyday lives of the borderland, Joyce unravels how traces - lingering imprints of the past - shape local relationships in the present, influencing shared understandings of history and the future. Introducing the concept of the spectral border as a lens to reveal the ambiguous presence of afterlives and memories tied to a historical boundary, the book unveils its present-day ghostly forms in the local ideas and practices of neighbourliness at the heart of borderland identity. Spectral Borders interrogates the use and limitations of these practices by exploring points of tension, where the meanings and uses of 'being a neighbour' and 'being from the borderland' are tested and challenged. In doing so, the book raises important questions about how conviviality is created and managed in a place with a long and unresolved history marked by ethnic and religious violence, war, and civil unrest.

This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in this region.The history begins around 1800, the limit of Yalaku cultural memory. It describes the flashpoints that ignited tribal fighting (from the theft of a hunting dog to accusations of sorcery), the strategic thinking of warriors, the use of alliances, the building of structural defences, and even the actual blows of notable battles. It includes songs recounting the reversals of fortunes a warrior can experience and the laments of women over their loved ones, relaying the perspectives of both war-parties and attacked communities. This gripping narrative, performed in a men's house with both men and women present, is both a feat of memory and a communal endeavour.Bowden's deft ethnographic analyses of the social structure and myths of the Yalaku provide the essential context to understand this society once locked into warfare with their neighbours, adversaries who knew each other's names, spoke each other's languages, intermarried, and during peacetime took part together in rituals at which their shared history was sung.

Evans-Pritchard was perhaps the most influential anthropological scholar of the twentieth century. His extraordinary work in Africa has formed a central foundation to anthropological thought since the 1930s, with generations of anthropologists having read and appreciated his ethnographies of the Azande, Nuer and Sanusi, and his analyses of social structures, belief systems and history. And yet, though so much has been written about his work, a rounded understanding of the person has proved elusive.This volume covers Evans-Pritchard as a promising student, a young graduate in search of career opportunities, an adventurous cultural explorer, a determined officer in the Second World War, and an ambitious department-building professor with a global reputation. Against a glittering array of contexts and characters - from Malinowski to Marett to the Maharaj of Kutch; from Oxford poets and pubs to Catholic conversion in war-torn Libya - there emerges a fascinating study of a figure who was much more than an innovative anthropologist.A portrait of the man and his time is composed from personal correspondence, archives and familial recollections, contributions from surviving friends and students, and accounts by those, including contemporary African scholars, who continue to debate and re-evaluate his work in all its complexity. This book is a fitting monument to Evans-Pritchard's legacy and a landmark in anthropological historiography.

Anthropology in Austria has come a long way, in terms of achieving diversity, growth and international visibility, since first emerging in Vienna, the capital of the former Habsburg Empire, and now of one of its main successor countries. This volume combines elements of critical self-reflection about that academic past with confidence in the intellectual currents presently in motion across the discipline.As with the country's contributions to world literature and music, the trajectory of social-cultural anthropology may be seen as a good example of the global relevance of research in Austria within the humanities and social sciences. This 'anthropology in motion' situates itself at the intersections between contemporary and historical research, but also often between the natural and the social sciences. It shows a commitment to conceptual and theoretical pluralism, but, equally importantly, a dedication to the maintenance and improvement of standards of methodologicalquality. Whether empirical research is focused on studies at home or abroad, the blending of renewed forms of ethnographic fieldwork with solid comparative analyses and archival research characterizes many of these ongoing advances.

Building a beautiful ornamented 'white canoe' was a way for the Lau people of Malaita in Solomon Islands to honour the ghosts of their ancestors in the days before they became Christians. This book tells the story of the last of these canoes, built in 1968 by one of the few clans still following their traditional religion, as witnessed by the late anthropologist Pierre Maranda. Maranda observed how the great artistic projects of Malaita were once supported by elaborate ritual procedures and celebrated with community festivals, all richly illustrated here by his photographs. James Tuita was among the Lau boys who played with Maranda's son and, years later, he visited Quebec to help Maranda with his research. Besides writing the Lau text for this book, he contributes his own acutely felt insights into the radical changes in Lau society during his lifetime and the importance of maintaining its cultural traditions. Ben Burt, a curator at the British Museum, knew Maranda through his own anthropological research in Malaita and worked with James Tuita to ensure that Maranda's plans for his ethnographic research were realized after his death. It is published, as Maranda intended, in Lau and English languages, to return some of their cultural heritage to the people of Lau, Malaita and Solomon Islands.This invaluable bilingual ethnographic account records with care and respect the social and religious life of a Pacific Islands community. The Last White-Canoe describes a people struggling against the challenges of colonial and Christian modernity through the revitalization of the craftsmanship and sacred knowledge of canoe-making during the transition from traditional religion to Christianity. With their experience of working with local experts and appreciation of indigenous historical and cultural knowledge, the authors confidently take the reader into the sacred world of this Lau community and the cultural heritage of Malaita and Solomon Islands. It is a task well done. Revd Dr Ben Wate, Solomon Islands National University This bilingual, international collaboration in scholarship offers rich insights into the complexities of making a major cultural object in Solomon Islands in the mid-twentieth century. This is not just a matter of the technical and practical manufacture, but of the day by day sourcing of resources, provisioning of food and shelter for the makers, the negotiations among men and with other beings, the ritual procedures and offerings, the eating and the talking and the celebrating. Vividly detailed, and illustrated with photographs taken throughout the process, the book makes a way of living and thinking alive to the reader. Dr Lissant Bolton, Keeper of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, British Museum

A truly exceptional resource for ethnobiologists combining rigorous data collected over long-term fieldwork with the Nuaulu with informed, sophisticated and lively engagement with key conceptual, methodological and theoretical debates in the field by one its leading figures. A landmark study that confirms the author's highly respected status.

This book offers nothing less than a comprehensive theory of the sacred object from the viewpoint of anthropology and the history of religion. Taking the riddle of fetishism as its starting point, it shows how people of all cultures ascribe immeasurable value to things, even to the point of making their own destiny dependent on them.

This collection brings together research supported by the RAI's Urgent Anthropology Fellowships Fund into communities whose culture and social life are under immediate threat with the aim of identifying ways of strengthening such communities through ethnographic work.

Aimed at both curious novice and experienced practitioner, the book is an exploration of what field notes are, can do and could be.

Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practices of inhabitation, from moving in or being modernized to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it comes home and is positioned not in sites of exchange but within the home and in households.

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? Contributions from social anthropology and law in this major research project offer conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual, and cultural resources in Papua, New Guinea. (Anthropology)

Polish anthropology developed in the past and innovates today in a twilight zone between French-Anglo-US hegemony and an Eastern European intellectual and political heritage. This collection offers original contributions to world anthropologies on themes such as gender, memory, engagement, activism, health and politic from this decentred context.

This book explores the relationship between African Americans, descendants of Africans brought to America as slaves, and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who have come to the United States of America voluntarily, mainly since the 1990s. This in-depth study on a little-researched subject brings new understanding of contemporary American society.

Dunbar's Number, the limit on the size of both social groups and personal social networks, has reached iconic status in both the worlds of academia and business, its design underpinning social networking sites. Dunbar joins authors from different fields to explore its conceptual origins and supporting evidence and to reflect on its implications.

This book takes the radical theories of Roy Wagner as a basis for conceptual improvisation. Applying insights into the on-going invention of culture, developed in Melanesia, this collection explores Native American and Afro-American ethnographies from the Americas and concludes with a commentary responding to each author's work by Wagner himself.

In an analysis of the increasing use of copyright law, literary, anthropological & legal experts explore, from a local African point of view, what happens to intangible cultural goods when they are confronted with large-scale commodification, distributed through media, and defined by globalized & divergent judicial systems & cultural norms.

Anthropologists often have fieldwork experiences that are not explicitly analysed in their writings, though they shape their understandings. This volume uncovers these layers of knowledge-making in order to develop a new language for building anthropological works, rooted primarily in the pre-textual worlds of tacit and intense experiences.

Specialists from anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore colour in relation to light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative, in case studies in Australia, British Columbia, Russia and the UK.

Contemporary indigenous peoples are modern societies, shaped by their ways of dealing with and transforming contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. Case studies from South America on shamanism and Christianity, traditional clothing, as well as indigenous cosmologies, technology and welfare, explore these processes

A timely collection on contemporary relationships between the state and society, which uses case studies beyond the heartland of political theory to consider state control under challenge or in transition.

A ground-breaking study of hip-hop in all its forms - rapping, DJing, break-dancing, graffiti, and now political organization - in Portuguese-speaking countries. In particular, it looks at the way young people use hip-hop to occupy social space in the city and critique the social order, in a global movement that incorporates many local forms.

A powerfully written memoir, by a respected anthropologist with more than five decades of experience as an ethnographer, author, editor, and mentor, that makes the case for serious ethnography as the foundation of anthropological theory and provides valuable and sometimes surprising perspectives on American Anthropology from 1950s to the present.

Illustrated ethnographic tour de force documenting the architecture and construction techniques of the Wola of Papua New Guinea, exploring the role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and everyday dwelling. Companion volume to Made in Niugini: technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (expanded, revised 2nd edition).