Annual Review of Anthropology· 2014Q1· Review
Anthropology and Voice
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Short summary
Anthropology scholarship since the 1990s reveals voice as a critical nexus for understanding personal agency, political power, and embodied cultural practices.
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Key points
- Voice is analyzed as a material practice shaped by specific cultural and historical contexts.
- Scholarship since the 1990s explores voice in relation to personal agency, representation, and political power.
- The review covers voice as sound, embodied practice, technological mediation, and 'voicing'.
- Voice is linked to identity, subjectivity, and the formation of publics.
- Attending to voice offers insight into intimate, affective, and embodied dimensions of cultural life.
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Abstract
Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This review focuses on scholarship produced since the 1990s in a variety of fields, addressing the status of the voice within Euro-Western modernity, voice as sound and embodied practice, technological mediation, and voicing. It then turns to the ways in which anthropology and related fields have framed the relationship between voice and identity, status, subjectivity, and publics. The review suggests that attending to voice in its multiple registers gives particular insight into the intimate, affective, and material/embodied dimensions of cultural life and sociopolitical identity. Questions of voice are implicated in many issues of concern to contemporary anthropology and can lend theoretical acuity to broader concepts of more general concern to social theory as well.
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