Everyone’s a Different Kind of Alien: An Anthropology of Sound

TY - JOUR

T1 - Everyone’s a Different Kind of Alien

T2 - An Anthropology of Sound

AU - Schulze, Holger

PY - 2016/3

Y1 - 2016/3

N2 - This editorial presents an introduction into the field of an anthropology of sound, with a special focus on the research strand of Historische Anthropologie or Historical Anthropology as developed at the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology in Berlin since the 1980s. The differences of this approach to a philosophical or biological anthropology are highlighted via its main focus on the plasticity and transformation of cultural concepts of the human. This transformation is triggered by media, by history, by imagination, and by sensory experiences. This sensory plasticity of humanoid aliens like you or me is thus the starting point for an anthropology of sound.

AB - This editorial presents an introduction into the field of an anthropology of sound, with a special focus on the research strand of Historische Anthropologie or Historical Anthropology as developed at the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology in Berlin since the 1980s. The differences of this approach to a philosophical or biological anthropology are highlighted via its main focus on the plasticity and transformation of cultural concepts of the human. This transformation is triggered by media, by history, by imagination, and by sensory experiences. This sensory plasticity of humanoid aliens like you or me is thus the starting point for an anthropology of sound.

U2 - 10.1080/17458927.2016.1162942

DO - 10.1080/17458927.2016.1162942

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1745-8927

VL - 11

SP - 3

EP - 6

JO - Senses and Society

JF - Senses and Society

IS - 1

ER -