Anthropology and Voice

Weidman, Amanda

doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

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“…Anthropological work has treated “voice” as including elements of both perspective and style (Hymes ; Johnstone ; Weidman ; Manning ). Bakhtin’s () work has used been used to examine both “social heteroglossia” (264) and “double‐voiced discourse.” My own work on the double‐voiced discourse of a queer Zanzibari man showed how he voiced his awareness of Zanzibari Islamic norms that prohibit open talk about homosexuality while indirectly revealing his sexuality through metalanguage about the talk of other queer men (Thompson ; Thompson and Ivanova forthcoming).…”

Section: Ideological Erasure Voice and Indexical Disjuncturementioning

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Becoming Muslims with a “Queer Voice”: Indexical Disjuncture in the Talk of LGBT Members of the Progressive Muslim Community

Thompson

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article examines LGBT Muslim erasure by hegemonic Islamic and homonormative ideologies and how those involved in nonconformist Muslim groups queer those ideologies in order to forge narratives of belonging. I analyze the work of 'queering' Muslim voices among LGBT Muslims and allies involved in a multisited community of nonconformist Muslim face-to-face and online groups, and what such queering explains about the relationship among erasure, voice, ideological disjuncture, and resistance. Through analysis of individual and group conversations alongside ethnographic observations, I argue thatLGBT Muslims and allies strategically index queerness and Muslimness as a challenge to marginalizing discourses and to create 'safe' spaces that also benefit other Muslims on the margins. Narratives of both LGBT Muslim marginalization and its strategic disruption as well as nonconformist group interactions are used to illustrate how the queering of Muslim discourse creates "indexical disjuncture" to make space for both LGBT Muslims and other nonconformist Muslims. I conclude by considering how providing evidence of language's role in the process of 'queering' contributes to ongoing conversations in queer theory. [progressive Muslims, LGBT Muslims, queering, indexical disjuncture, erasure, voice] T his article examines the erasure of LGBT Muslims by hegemonic Islamic and homonormative ideologies and how those involved in nonconformist Muslim groups queer those ideologies in order to forge narratives of belonging. I analyze the work of 'queering' Muslim voices among LGBT Muslims and allies involved in a network of nonconformist Muslim face-to-face and online groups, and what such queering explains about the relationship among erasure, voice, ideological disjuncture, and resistance. Through analysis of individual and group conversations alongside ethnographic observations in a multisited community, I argue that LGBT Muslims and allies strategically index queerness and Muslimness as a challenge to marginalizing discourses and to create 'safe' spaces that also benefit other Muslims on the margins.Building on scholarship on sexually diverse and gender-variant Muslims in other disciplines and a growing body of queer linguistic anthropology, I examine narratives of both LGBT Muslim marginalization and its strategic disruption as well as nonconformist group interactions that illustrate how the queering of Muslim

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Section: Ideological Erasure Voice and Indexical Disjuncturementioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming Muslims with a “Queer Voice”: Indexical Disjuncture in the Talk of LGBT Members of the Progressive Muslim Community

Thompson

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…Research on media technology concerns not only the technical functions but also the “ideological mode of address” to formulate new subjects through interactions with technologies (Larkin ). Weidman () argues that anthropological research on the theoretical significance of voice should critically question “how” and “why” certain metaphorical linkages between voice and subjectivity are formulated, and concomitantly what kind of subjectivity and identity is silenced in the regime of voice (Weidman ).…”

Section: The Politics Of Transcription and Media Technologymentioning

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Writing Sound: Stenography, Writing Technology, and National Modernity in China, 1890s

Hou

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Writing Sound: Stenography, Writing Technology, and National Modernity in China, 1890s Writing practices are often subsumed under the authenticity of speech (Derrida 1976). This grammatological understanding of writing is especially conspicuous in transcription from speech to writing in institutional settings. However, transcription is not simply a "veridical record of speech" (Linell 2005) but imbued with power dynamics at the interface between writing subjects, technology, and institutions. Drawing on archival material and stenographic works from 1890s China, this article examines human-technology interactions in Chinese stenography. The emergence of stenography coincided with the ideology of linguistic modernity, the coming of internationalization, and the political agenda of national strength, boiled down to the sensorial shift of authenticity from eye to ear in writing practices. Stenographers were seen as "transparent" mediators between speech and texts. However, the embodied labor of stenographers precludes the perfect and complete representation of sound-in-texts. The indexical tie between speech events and "faithful" transcripts is thus broken, complicated by negotiations between the institutional power of political-technological rationality and executive subjects, stenographers. The legitimacy within texts, therefore, needs to be reexamined by looking into writing practices happening between stenographers and networks of institutional and technological ideologies.

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“…The reflexive recognition of this fact—in particular, that ideologies (e.g., of language) are never limited to what they are putatively “about” (viz. language)—has, as an example of the very process it has theorized, generated its own lexical register within linguistic anthropology: namely, “______ ideologies” or “ideologies of ______.” In 2015, authors have elaborated the dialectics of graphic ideologies (Spitzmuller ), media ideologies (Eisenlohr ; Jones ), semiotic ideologies (Keane ), textual ideologies (Faudree ), and ideologies of authenticity (Wilce and Fenigsen ), of brand (Koh ), of communication (Nozawa ; Slotta ), of creativity (Wilf ), of mathematics pedagogy (Chrisomalis ), of race (Hodges ), of register (Jones ), of sexuality (Manning ), of translation (Gal ), and of voice (Weidman ).…”

Section: Language Ideologymentioning

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“…; Manning ), fractal discursivity (Proctor ), genre (Jones ; Koven ; Noy ; Vigoroux ), heteroglossia (Jaffe et al. ), intertextuality (Graan ; Koven ; Prentice ), transculturality (Tetreault ), translation (Gal ), and voicing (Perrino ; Weidman ).…”

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Linguistic Anthropology in 2015: Not the Study of Language

Nakassis

2016

American Anthropologist

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The thesis of this essay is that linguistic anthropology is not the study of language. Rather, "language" functions as a permanently problematic, if indispensable, object for linguistic anthropological analysis and thought. This is because, as I suggest, the critical intervention of linguistic anthropology over the last 40 years has been its ethnographic focus on indexicality, in particular, the ways that indexical processes undermine language as an autonomous object, entangling it with other semiotic modalities and thereby displacing it beyond its putative borders.Reviewing linguistic anthropological scholarship from 2015, I argue that it is the study of this displacement and its more general semiotic implications-and the entangled and mutually informing analytics that have been developed to theorize them, for example, language ideology, entextualization, interdiscursivity, chronotope-that centers the field. Focusing on a set of such analytics, I illustrate how recent linguistic anthropological scholarship has elaborated the reflexive, dialectical nature of social life, theorizing what I call total semiotic facts. I explore these dialectics by discussing three thematic clusters that occupied the attention of the field in 2015: diversity and authenticity, political economy, and mass mediation. [linguistic anthropology, indexicality, language ideology, chronotope, superdiversity, authenticity, political economy, mass mediation, year in review] RESUMEN La tesis de este ensayo es que la antropología lingüística no es el estudio del lenguaje. Más bien, el "lenguaje" funciona como un objeto para el análisis y la conceptualización antropológico lingüística, permanentemente problemático, si bien indispensable. Esto es debido, como lo sugiero, a que la intervención crítica de la antropología lingüística durante losúltimos cuarenta años ha sido su foco etnográfico en la indexicalidad, en particular, los modos que los procesos indéxicos socavan el lenguaje como un objeto autónomo, entrelazándolo con otras modalidades semióticas y por lo tanto desplazándolo más allá de sus bordes putativos. Revisando la investigación antropológica lingüística de 2015, argumento que es el estudio de este desplazamiento y sus implicaciones semióticas más generales-y la analítica entrelazada y mutuamente informativa que ha sido desarrollada para teorizarlos, por ejemplo, ideología del lenguaje, entextualización, interdiscursividad, cronotopo-lo que centra el campo. Enfocándome en una serie de tal analítica, ilustro cómo la investigación antropológica lingüística reciente ha elaborado la naturaleza reflexiva, dialéctica de la vida social, teorizando lo que llamo hechos totales semióticos.Exploro estas dialécticas discutiendo tres grupos temáticos que ocuparon la atención en el campo en 2015: diversidad y autenticidad, economía política, y meditación masiva. [antropología lingüística, indexicalidad, ideología del lenguaje, cronotopo, superdiversidad, autenticidad, economía política, meditación masiva, año en revisión]

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Anthropology and Voice

Cited by 123 publications

References 90 publications

Becoming Muslims with a “Queer Voice”: Indexical Disjuncture in the Talk of LGBT Members of the Progressive Muslim Community

Becoming Muslims with a “Queer Voice”: Indexical Disjuncture in the Talk of LGBT Members of the Progressive Muslim Community

Writing Sound: Stenography, Writing Technology, and National Modernity in China, 1890s

Linguistic Anthropology in 2015: Not the Study of Language

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