A Rainforest Acoustemology

Authors

  • Steven Feld University of New Mexico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2018v20n1p229

Abstract

This text has the purpose of giving a voice to a sort of alternating reality, to a kind of resonant sensibility I have found by way of anthropological research of the ecology of language, of music and acoustics. My hope is that when granting spaces to marginalized voices from where they can speak out, scream and sing, therefore anthropology could in certain measure counteract the rooted arrogance of colonial and imperial authority, the same of history written in just one tongue, history with one voice as if unique and possible narrative.

 

Author Biography

Steven Feld, University of New Mexico

Steven Feld é músico, produtor cinematográfico e Distinguished Professor Emeritus de Antropologia na Universidade do Novo México. Seus CDs documentais de arte sonora incluem Voices of the Rainforest, The Time of Bells 1-5, Suikinkutsu, e The Castaways Project. Entre seus filmes estão Hallelujah! e A Por Por Funeral for Ashirifie. É autor de livros como Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra (2012) e Sound and Sentiment (1982); coautor de Music Grooves (1994) e Bosavi-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary (1998); editor e tradutor de Ciné-Ethnography de Jean Rouch (2003); e coeditor de Senses of Place (1996). Escreve atualmente sobre esquizofonia, intervocalidade e acustemologia, e seu projeto cinematográfico mais recente discute performance e política nas marionetes musicais em Gana.

Published

2018-10-01

How to Cite

FELD, Steven. A Rainforest Acoustemology. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 20, n. 1, p. 229–254, 2018. DOI: 10.5007/2175-8034.2018v20n1p229. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ilha/article/view/2175-8034.2018v20n1p229. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Translation