Apùap World Hearing Revisited: Talking with ‘Animals’, ‘Spirits’ and other Beings, and Listening to the Apparently Inaudible

Bastos, Rafael José de Menezes

doi:10.1080/17411912.2013.845364

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“…Some of this work has focused on sonic connections between humans and other-than-human organisms (e.g. Feld 1990Feld , 1996Helmreich 2007;Menezes Bastos 2013;Whitehouse 2015). The current research sought to develop this area of anthropological interest by opening up sound as an important aspect of humananimal relations in the zoo context.…”

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Listening to the Zoo: Challenging Zoo Visiting Conventions

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Badman-King

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Ethnos

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In academic discourse, zoos have often been conceptualised as places of spectacle, with scholars focusing on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, describes a set of guided listening visits conducted at two UK zoos. The visits were designed to question, disrupt and offer alternatives to ingrained zoo visiting conventions. They were also used to generate data on how sound mediates, or has the potential to mediate, relations between zoo visitors and zoo animals. The article describes the visits, reflects on their conceptual underpinnings and discusses themes emerging from participants' experiences. It demonstrates the relevance of listening walks as a research methodology and illustrates the complexity of sound as a form of multispecies entanglement in the zoo context. The listening visits are also shown to indicate potential directions for wider changes in zoo visiting culture.

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Listening to the Zoo: Challenging Zoo Visiting Conventions

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“…Some work from anthropology's auditory turn has explored ways in which humans in various cultural contexts listen to and interpret the sounds of other animals (e.g. Feld 1990; Menezes Bastos 2013; Whitehouse 2015). In his classic ethnography on the Kaluli of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, for example, Feld (1990) describes how members of this group display a sophisticated knowledge of the calls and songs of local birds.…”

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Listening after the animals: sound and pastoral care in the zoo

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Hurn

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Royal Anthropological Inst

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In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other‐than‐human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound‐focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross‐species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pastoral care and control discussed by Foucault and applied to the zoo context by Braverman are productively reworked and reorientated in order to understand this form of listening. The article also demonstrates the interconnectedness of keeper, visitor, and animal sound worlds, in the process generating an original perspective that complements and enriches conventional zoo studies.

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Sobre as flautas sagradas xinguanas e a antropologização do mundo

Bastos

2021

Rev. antropol.

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Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre as flautas sagradas nas terras baixas da América do Sul, tomadas as xinguanas como objeto central de atenção. Também, é uma abordagem do que chamo antropologização do mundo, ou seja, a inversão da hegemonia dos espíritos mama´e face aos humanos. O artigo explora a ideia de Pierre Clastres de "contra" que me levou a uma visão dos xinguanos como sociedades disciplinares, de acordo com Foucault, mas ainda assim em uma perspectiva contra a modernidade, a partir das considerações de Bruno Latour.

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Apùap World Hearing Revisited: Talking with ‘Animals’, ‘Spirits’ and other Beings, and Listening to the Apparently Inaudible

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Listening to the Zoo: Challenging Zoo Visiting Conventions

Listening to the Zoo: Challenging Zoo Visiting Conventions

Listening after the animals: sound and pastoral care in the zoo

Sobre as flautas sagradas xinguanas e a antropologização do mundo

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