Radio fields: anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st century

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Title:	Radio fields: anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st century
Editors:	Bessire, Lucas Fisher, Daniel
Year:	2012
Pages:	286
Language:	English
City of publisher:	New York
Publisher:	New York University Press
ISBN:	081477167X; 9780814771679; 0814738192; 9780814738191
Geographic terms:	world Mali Zambia
Subjects:	radio society culture
Abstract:	This book employs ethnographic methods to reveal the diverse domains in which radio is imagined, deployed, and understood. Drawing on research from six continents, the volume demonstrates how the particular capacities and practices of radio provide singular insight into diverse social worlds, ranging from aboriginal Australia to urban Zambia. Together, the contributors address how radio creates distinct possibilities for rethinking such fundamental concepts as culture, communication, community, and collective agency. Contributions on Africa: Reconsidering Muslim authority: female 'preachers' and the ambiguities of radio-mediated sermonizing in Mali (Dorothea Schulz); 'A house of wires upon wires': sensuous and linguistic entanglements of evidence and epistemologies in the study of radio culture (Debra Vidali-Spitulnik) [ASC Leiden abstract]