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Title Radio fields : anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st century / edited by Lucas Bessire and Daniel Fisher ; with an afterword by Faye Ginsburg
Published New York : New York University Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents Introduction : Radio Fields -- Aurality under Democracy : Cultural History of FM Radio and Ideologies of Voice in Nepal -- From the Studio to the Street : Producing the Voice in Indigenous Australia -- Editing the Nation : How Radio Engineers Encode Israeli National Imaginaries -- Reconsidering Muslim Authority : Female "Preachers" and the Ambiguities of Radio-Mediated Sermonizing in Mali -- Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca : Testimony and Participatory Democracy -- The Cultural Politics of Radio : Two Views from the Warlpiri Public Sphere -- Frequencies of Transgression : Notes on the Politics of Excess and Constraint among Mexican Free Radios -- "Foreign Voices" : Multicultural Broadcasting and Immigrant Representation at Germany's Radio MultiKulti -- "We Go Above" : Media Metaphysics and Making Moral Life on Ayoreo Two-Way Radio -- Appalachian Radio Prayers : The Prosthesis of the Holy Ghost and the Drive to Tactility -- Radio in the (i)Home : Changing Experiences of Domestic Audio Technologies in Britain -- "A House of Wires upon Wires" : Sensuous and Linguistic Entanglements of Evidence and Epistemologies in the Study of Radio Culture -- Radio Fields : An Afterword
Summary Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world. As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap, radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. It is used as a call for prayer in Argentina and Appalachia, to organize political protest in Mexico and Libya, and for wartime communication in Iraq and Afghanistan. In urban centers, it is played constantly in shopping malls, waiting rooms, and classrooms. Yet despite its omnipresence, it remains the media form least studied by anthropologists. This book employs ethnographic methods to reveal the diverse domains in which radio is imagined, deployed, and understood. Drawing on research from six continents, the volume demonstrates how the particular capacities and practices of radio provide singular insight into diverse social worlds, ranging from aboriginal Australia to urban Zambia. Together, the contributors address how radio creates distinct possibilities for rethinking such fundamental concepts as culture, communication, community, and collective agency
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Technology -- Anthropological aspects.
Communication and culture -- History -- 21st century
Radio -- History -- 21st century
Communication in anthropology -- History -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Communication and culture
Communication in anthropology
Radio
Technology -- Anthropological aspects
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fisher, Daniel
Bessire, Lucas
LC no. 2012024953
ISBN 9780814769935
0814769934
Other Titles Anthropology and wireless sound in the twenty-first century