Introduction In the Ancient texts of the Vedas and Upanishads, Hindu cosmological thought advocates the theory of Naad-Brahman, translated as the Sound of Brahman. It posits that the…
It is an honor to write an afterword to this provocative and engaging collection of short essays and films by […] The post Afterword for Sensory Media Anthropology…
Leonardo Custódio Sometimes, when I think about multiple processes of communication in doing research, I feel as if I become […] The post Clocks appeared first on Allegra…
Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […] The post Walls appeared first on Allegra…
Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I […] The post Gut Feeling appeared first on…
Leonardo Custódio: Cameras, Narratives and Actions in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Complexos (Finland/Brazil 2020) is a 26-minute-long film that […] The post Moved appeared first on Allegra…
Mónica Degen Steps to move and change Steps can be both those we take every day, one foot after the […] The post Steps appeared first on Allegra…
Sanne Krogh Groth Fragility of voltage Needless to say, electronic music has something to do with electricity. As a genre, […] The post Electricity appeared first on Allegra…
Mónica Degen The Reciprocity of Touch Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […] The post Skin appeared first on Allegra…
WHAT IS SENSORY MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY? With this thread, we want to make a case for what we call sensory media […] The post Sensory Media Anthropology appeared first…
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the turn from summer to…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/soundings-and-the-politics-of-sociolinguistic-listening-for-transnational-space-9781350331303 Leonie Schulte: Can you describe sounding and how as a conceptual le…
Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about whose thinking thinking really…
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that which happens when words…
While academic thinking increasingly shapes itself along the structure of the scientific journal article, compelling steadfast arguments that smoothly steer readers from question to conclusion (Grünfe…
The rise of Çatalhöyük is one of my favorite topics to cover in the Introduction to Anthropology course. Located in central Turkey, the proto-urban settlement was occupied for…
Photograph: by the author – Cha xi design in Hengshan Temple event Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms and the Everyday Culture in Dalian. Yingkun Hou. Ph.D. Thesis in…
“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit Mevlana [‘s musealized tomb] every year. Why? Because…
On January 30, 2021, more than 8000 inhabitants of Göttingen, Germany, had to evacuate their homes. Four suspected WWII bombs had been detected underground, and in order to…
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily diaries” from the recent…
“When we encounter something beautiful, we usually experience two kinds of reactions. One may be moved by learning the background of the work or the artist, while the…
IWe had been in lockdown since 18th March 2020 when J.’s daycare closed for a break. A few days later, on 23rd March, South Africa’s President Ramaphosa announced…
Anthr{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Elena Burgos Martinez. It is all a matter of words. The recent emergence of a wealth of COVID-19-related material shows that we all narrate…
Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away from longstanding meanings in religious, archaeological…