Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation

Eisenlohr, Patrick

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“…Among these resonating registers are affect, emotion, discourse and memory…The resonances themselves are atmospheric” (Abels, 2020, 166). In other words, atmospheres make such disparate strands of life such as acoustemologies (Feld, 1996) and other techniques of the body, discourses, and memories commensurable with one another by fusing them with the feeling of having a body (Eisenlohr, 2022, 625). In such a way, atmospheres are inseparable from sociocultural modulations of sensation, but also irreducible to such more qualified cultural renderings of the sensory.…”

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Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions

Eisenlohr

2023

Ethos

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In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt‐body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses. Examining the meaningfulness of atmospheres as spatially extended emotions from a neo‐phenomenological perspective, I argue that the notion of atmosphere offers advantages for understanding sensory cultural practices such as sounding and lighting. The felt dimensions of these practices often escape full qualification by cultural discourses, but are nevertheless deeply meaningful. Further, I explore how such atmospheric meaningfulness is irreducible to particular single sensory modi. Instead, it rests on diffuse and synesthetic kinds of felt‐bodily affectedness with a holistic character. I demonstrate this by way of two ethnographic examples, investigating practices sounding and lighting, respectively, as atmospheric practices.

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Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions

Eisenlohr

2023

Ethos

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“…Phenomenology, which has recently gained some prominence in US anthropology, also seems to be becoming more popular among European anthropologists (e.g. Cooper 2022;Eisenlohr 2022;Graf 2022). Th e fi eld of economic anthropology, in particular, was well represented in 2022, with two concepts -moral economy (see below) and social reproduction (e.g.…”

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Ethical Endeavours

Vorhölter

2023

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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This article provides an overview of the articles published in the main English-speaking European Anthropology journals in 2022. One of the key themes running through these publications is ethics and people's desires and struggles to ‘do good’ – despite, or perhaps because of, the protracted crises the world is currently facing. Attempting to move beyond simple critique, many of the authors empathetically engage with their interlocutors’ ‘ethical endeavours’, which seem to revolve around three main objectives: people want to build better futures, create moral economies and establish ethical relationships. The article summarises a plethora of contributions to these three themes, thereby revealing the many paradoxes, complexities and unexpected outcomes of doing good, and the seemingly inevitable dynamics between people's moral ambitions and their derailments. Résumé Cet article repose sur une revue des articles publiés dans les principales revues européennes d'anthropologie en langue anglaise durant l'année 2022. L’éthique est certainement l'un des thèmes saillants parcourant ces publications et avec elle le désir et les luttes des gens pour « bien faire » - en dépit, ou peut-être à cause, des crises sans fin auxquelles le monde fait actuellement face. Dans une tentative pour aller au-delà de la simple critique, de nombreux auteurs s'engagent avec empathie dans les « efforts éthiques » de leurs interlocuteurs, efforts qui tournent autour de trois objectifs principaux : les gens veulent construire un futur meilleur, créer des économies morales et établir des relations éthiques. Cet article résume une pléthore de contributions autour de ces trois thèmes, en révélant les nombreux paradoxes, complexités et conséquences inattendues de la volonté de bien faire, ainsi que les inévitables dynamiques entre les ambitions morales des gens et leurs déraillements.

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“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes

Bafford

2023

Anthropology Southern Africa

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Atmospheric resonance: sonic motion and the question of religious mediation

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions

Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions

Ethical Endeavours

“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes

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