- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
- 1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations<sup>1</sup>
- 2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography
- 3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text
- 4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place
- 5. <i>Boru-vedak</i> (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka
- 6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
- 7. Transplant
- 8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong
- 9. The Castaways Project
- 10. <i>Air Pressure</i>: a sound film
- 11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl
- 12. Contest Behaviour
- 13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
- 14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War
- 15. <i>Sweetgrass</i>: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
- 16. <i>Cottonopolis</i>: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture
- 17. <i>Christmas with Wawa</i>: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics
- 18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
- 19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy<sup>1</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
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- (p.93) 6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
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- Beyond text?
- Author(s):
Paul Carter
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- Manchester University Press
This chapter develops a speculative account of the role that listening and architecture may have in reconfiguring the desire of anthropology to know the other through the face-to-face encounter. It stages three heterogeneous scenes of listening: the libretto and scenography for Luciano Berio's music theatre work, La Vera Storia, the staging of the conditions of self-knowing in the Phaedrus and some miscellaneous speculations about the visagéité of the wall. Through these scenes the wall is explored as a site of whispering, a gathering place of echoes and the place where it is proposed that anthropological insights may be had in recognizing that listening is always a matter of listening in and overhearing and being overheard.
Keywords: Mimesis, listening, wall, Echo, Architecture, Logos, aporia
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
- 1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations<sup>1</sup>
- 2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography
- 3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text
- 4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place
- 5. <i>Boru-vedak</i> (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka
- 6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing
- 7. Transplant
- 8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong
- 9. The Castaways Project
- 10. <i>Air Pressure</i>: a sound film
- 11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl
- 12. Contest Behaviour
- 13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
- 14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War
- 15. <i>Sweetgrass</i>: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
- 16. <i>Cottonopolis</i>: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture
- 17. <i>Christmas with Wawa</i>: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics
- 18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses
- 19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy<sup>1</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
