Season 02 - Episode 04: "Voice, Sound and Democracy"

Anthropological Airwaves

EpisodeAug 7, 201922m

Season 02 - Episode 04: "Voice, Sound and Democracy"

Anthropological Airwaves

EpisodeAug 7, 201922m

In Episode 12 of Anthropological Airwaves, producer Nooshin Sadeq-Samimi interviews Laura Kunreuther. They cover a range of issues related to how voice and sound figure into the political process, focusing on Kunreuther's monograph Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu and her recent article in Cultural Anthropology, "Sounds of Democracy: Performance, Protest, and Political Subjectivity." Episode Transcript Credits: Producer and Interviewer: Nooshin Sadeq-Samimi Co-Editor and Host: Kyle Olson Co-Editor: Diego Arispe-Bazán Thumnail Image: Cover of Voicing Subjects, Laura Kunreuther, UC Press (2014). Featured Audio: Byzantine Time Machine - "Glimpses of Kathmandu" AP Archive - "Strike, police presence, violence, pro-democracy protest" Nepathya - "Yo Jindagani"

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Anthropological Airwaves is the official podcast of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. It is a venue for highlighting the polyphony of voices across the discipline’s four fields and the infinite—and often overlapping—subfields within them. Through conversations, experiments in sonic ethnography, ethnographic journalism, and other (primarily but not exclusively) aural formats, Anthropological Airwaves endeavors to explore the conceptual, methodological, and pedagogical issues that shape anthropology’s past, present, and future; experiment with new ways of conversing, listening, and asking questions; and collaboratively and collectively push the boundaries of what constitutes anthropological knowledge production. Anthropo...

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