Enlightenment and the Question of the Other: A Postmodern Audition

Jung, Hwa Yol

doi:10.1023/a:1020131220864

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“…In "Enlightenment and the Question of the Other," Hwa Yol Jung (2002) argues that ocularcentrism and the scriptist bias of Western knowledge have created prejudices not only toward other senses and ways of knowing but also toward the categories of body, woman, nature, and non-West.…”

Section: Conflicting Sensory Epistemologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In “Enlightenment and the Question of the Other,” Hwa Yol Jung (2002) argues that ocularcentrism and the scriptist bias of Western knowledge have created prejudices not only toward other senses and ways of knowing but also toward the categories of body, woman, nature, and non‐West. The hierarchy of senses, and of authoritative sources, that positions sight at the top—epistemically and morally—is not neutral: it carries the baggage of racial and gender prejudice.…”

Section: Conflicting Sensory Epistemologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This sensorial racism should be kept in mind in any discussion on decolonizing academia and the classroom (Nye 2018). To decolonize academia necessarily means to question such sensorial hierarchy and recognize it as culturally specific (Jung 2002, 302).…”

Section: Conflicting Sensory Epistemologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages

Lorea

2022

American Anthropologist

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Songs are knowledge" (g āne jñ ān) is a recurrent saying among Bauls, Fakirs, Sahajiyas, and other Bengali esoteric and heterodox communities. The sonic dimension of songs is related to cosmogonic vibration, seed, food, and feminine bodily fluids. Singing, requiring breath control and concentration, is associated with yoga. How is the performance of songs simultaneously an embodied way of knowing and an act of indigenous scholarship? Can the epistemology of singing coexist with hegemonic sensory epistemologies in a postcolonial South Asia? This article draws upon a ten-year ethnographic engagement with Bengali-speaking gurus and performers to discuss how singing provides a transformative and anthropopoietic knowledge, rooted in bodily experience and exchanged among performers-listeners to build togetherness in ways that subvert dominant ideologies of relatedness. This article also adopts Bengali understandings of ensounded knowledge to question the ocularcentric and scriptist epistemologies that underlie modern academia. Taking songs seriously as ways of knowing in their own right, I suggest singing as method and using the feelingful body as a research tool, not only for an ethnography that reflects the sensory epistemology of the communities I work with but also as a promising way to decolonize anthropology's epistemic ethnocentrism.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Conflicting Sensory Epistemologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%