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On hearing together critically: making aural politics sensible through art & ethnography
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Abstract This article investigates the politics of sensing through the productions of aurality enacted at tourist and heritage venues in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Drawing on six summers of fieldwork with tourist producers in the region, the article traces how aural experiences and stances are used to ... view more
This article investigates the politics of sensing through the productions of aurality enacted at tourist and heritage venues in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Drawing on six summers of fieldwork with tourist producers in the region, the article traces how aural experiences and stances are used to make and manage frontier worlds for
tourists. It argues that the exploitation and colonization of local Lakota lifeworlds is crucial to producing frontier experiences and that aural modes are the most powerful and subtle means to managing these experiences. It introduces three experiments to
critically engage how hearing and listening are shaped along racial lines at these venues and argues for the necessity of more artistic approaches to ethnography. Ultimately, the article claims that anthropologists must grapple with both the representational and sensorial politics of their presently embodied practices and future knowledge productions.... view less
Keywords
cultural heritage; tourism; art; ethnography
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Aurality; Lakota; Sensory politics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 74-95
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 17 (2015) 1
Issue topic
Anthropology and Art
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed