Dueling Landscapes: Singing Places and Identities in Highland Bolivia

Solomon, Thomas

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“…A group of very wonderful students took those classes, at the same time that they took classes with Katie Stewart (1995) on cultural poetics, Greg Urban (1991) on semiotics and linguistic anthropology, Joel Sherzer (1983) on speech play and verbal art, and Ward Keeler (1987) on performance (see also Graham 1995;Sherzer and Urban 1986). There was a real institutional synergy at Texas at that time around expressive culture; it is now represented in some very sophisticated work on sound, poetics, and song by people from that cohort, like Keila Diehl (2002), Ron Emoff (2002), Aaron Fox (2004), Calla Jacobson (1999), Louise Meintjes (2003), David Samuels (2004), Tom Porcello (1998), Tom Solomon (2000), and Hans Weisethaunet (1998). (See also Feld and Fox 1994; DB: And it was right about this time that the Voices of the Rainforest project started with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart?…”

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Doing anthropology in sound

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Brenneis

2004

American Ethnologist

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Sound has come to have a particular resonance in many disciplines over the past decade. Social theorists, historians, literary researchers, folklorists, and scholars in science and technology studies and visual, performative, and cultural studies provide a range of substantively rich accounts and epistemologically provocative models for how researchers can take sound seriously. This conversation explores general outlines of an anthropology of sound. Its main focus, however, is on the issues involved in using sound as a primary medium for ethnographic research.

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Doing anthropology in sound

Feld

Brenneis

2004

American Ethnologist

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“…Research on place in oral cultures demonstrates the value of toponyms as repositories of cultural information (Cowell and Moss ; Cruikshank ; Johnson ; Rudes ; Solomon ; Thornton ; Yong ). Basso () explicates the textual and narrative qualities of place‐names, wherein toponyms metonymize cognitive and pragmatic associations.…”

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Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language

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Koyiyumptewa

Whiteley

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American Anthropologist

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The toponyms of Hopitutskwa ("Hopi land") explicate Hopi history and culture. Place-names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and "footprints" of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals produced linguistic and ethnocartographic records of 282 place-names. Audio and video recordings preserve the vocalization of place-names pronounced in Hopi as well as their use in a larger Hopi language contextualization. The variety and distribution of toponyms discussed during interviews demonstrates how Hopis remember, interact with, and honor their land. [Hopi, Hopitutskwa, Hopi language, landscape, toponyms] RESUMEN El topónimo de Hopitutskwa ("tierra de los hopi") explica la historia y cultura de los hopi. Los nombres de lugares marcan localizaciones sagradas, accidentes geográficos asociados con deidades y eventos históricos, manantiales, sendas, y "huellas" de pueblos ancestrales, petroglifos, y otros sitios arqueológicos. La Fundación Nacional de Ciencias financió un proyecto colaborativo para documentar el idioma hopi por medio de la grabación de topónimos y narrativas asociadas. Entrevistas con 15 individuos hopi produjeron registros lingüísticos y etnográficos de 282 nombres de lugares. Audio-video grabaciones preservan la vocalización de los nombres de los lugares pronunciados en hopi así como su uso en una contextualización más amplia del idioma hopi. La variedad y distribución de topónimos discutidos en las entrevistas demuestran como los hopis recuerdan, interactúan con, y honran su tierra. [Hopi, Hopitutskwa, idioma hopi, paisaje, topónimos]

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“…Recent anthropological and geographical explorations of the interplay of the senses (e.g. Stoller 1989;Howes 1991;Pocock 1993;Tuan 1993;Solomon 2000) critique the exclusively vision-based epistemology, calling for the exploration of the roles of the other senses, of which there may be no fewer than 21 (Durie 2005: 36), in the cultural patterning of perception. Writing explicitly about the realm of sound, Schafer (1985), building on the concept of 'acoustic space' as developed by Carpenter and McLuhan (1960), explores the soundscapes of living environments.…”

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confidence: 99%