Critical Pedagogy for a Polymodal World

Multisensorial Anthropology: A Retrofit Cracking Open of the Field

“…With a retrofit of the phrase multisensorial anthropology , we can recalibrate the channel ratios on the mixing board. We can shift away from debates about subdisciplinary boundaries, labels, and credos toward recognizing that people—including anthropological practitioners—live embodied, multisensorial, polymedia (Miller and Madianou ), polymodal (Loveless and Griffith ), multimedia, and multimodal lives within mediated multimodal genre systems (Prior ) and through both linguistic and nonlinguistic semiosis (Agha ).…”

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana by Steven Feld

“…With a retrofit of the phrase multisensorial anthropology, we can recalibrate the channel ratios on the mixing board. We can shift away from debates about subdisciplinary boundaries, labels, and credos toward recognizing that people-including anthropological practitioners-live embodied, multisensorial, polymedia (Miller and Madianou 2012), polymodal (Loveless and Griffith 2014), multimedia, and multimodal lives within mediated multimodal genre systems (Prior 2009) and through both linguistic and nonlinguistic semiosis (Agha 2005).…”