Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.
Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied...
Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a ne...
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars, fire engines and less often - tornado warnings. In World War Two in London during the Blitz sirens warned people to move into the safety of air-raid shelters. Yet in parallel to this 'Sirens' also have a mythical reality as embodied in the meeting between Odysseus and the Sirens in Greek myth whereby the specter of the 'Sirens' embodied the seductive, but ultimately destructive power of sound over the human subject.
Ideologies of the Sirens embody both the protective and the dangerous elements of Siren...
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars, fire engines and less often - tornado warnings. In World War Two ...
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars, fire engines and less often - tornado warnings. In World War Two in London during the Blitz -sirens warned people to move into the safety of air-raid shelters. Yet in parallel to this 'Sirens' also have a mythical reality as embodied in the meeting between Odysseus and the Sirens in Greek myth whereby the specter of the 'Sirens' embodied the seductive, but ultimately destructive power of sound over the human subject.
Ideologies of the Sirens embody both the protective and the dangerous elements of Siren...
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars, fire engines and less often - tornado warnings. In World War Two ...
In Nonsensical Sound, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, Elliot makes new and fascinating connections between a wide range of artistic examples to ultimately build a case for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning.
In Nonsensical Sound, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Carroll, Edward Lea...
In Nonsensical Sound, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, Elliot makes new and fascinating connections between a wide range of artistic examples to ultimately build a case for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning.
In Nonsensical Sound, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Carroll, Edward Lea...
Sonic Intimacy addresses and establishes the new concept of "sonic intimacy" as a key term through which sound, human, and technological relations can be assessed and understood in relation to capitalism: what is sonic intimacy, how it is changing, and what is at stake in its transformation? Analyzing "sonic intimacy" through key case studies of three alternative music technologies of the black Atlantic (sound systems, pirate radio, and YouTube) James addresses in particular the aural transmission of care (intimacies), the internal (intimate) affects of sound and the collective...
Sonic Intimacy addresses and establishes the new concept of "sonic intimacy" as a key term through which sound, human, and technological rel...
Sonic Intimacy addresses and establishes the new concept of sonic intimacy as a key term through which sound, human, and technological relations can be assessed and understood in relation to capitalism: what is sonic intimacy, how it is changing, and what is at stake in its transformation? Analyzing sonic intimacy through key case studies of three alternative music technologies of the black Atlantic (sound systems, pirate radio, and YouTube) James addresses in particular the aural transmission of care (intimacies), the internal (intimate) affects of sound and the collective affect...
Sonic Intimacy addresses and establishes the new concept of sonic intimacy as a key term through which sound, human, and technological relat...
Jesus invented Twitter? Well, He was a master at throwing out brief, pithy sayings that were calculated to provoke and offend. But that put Him at the pointy end of a long line of prophets who trafficked in barbs, riddles and shocking object lessons. Instead of doling out rose water, these troublemakers went straight for the gasoline. Those who indulge in murder and adultery are often the first to insist upon table manners, which is why God sends a Jeremiah to smash the pottery or an Isaiah to preach naked in the street. King Solomon, who was also an accomplished tweeter, might tell us that...
Jesus invented Twitter? Well, He was a master at throwing out brief, pithy sayings that were calculated to provoke and offend. But that put Him at the...
If we want to understand the book of Revelation, we must remember that it is at the end of the Bible, not the beginning. There are many conflicting ideas concerning what this intriguing and terrifying book is about, but the truth is that although it appears to be foreign territory - a hostile landscape filled with animal totems, confounding signs and confronting images including sacrificial virgins clad in pure white, chosen, slain and ascending with a disturbing sexual undercurrent - the Revelation is in fact a denouement, a revelation, of the natural world, like the last act of a whodunit....
If we want to understand the book of Revelation, we must remember that it is at the end of the Bible, not the beginning. There are many conflicting id...
