Journal article · January 1, 2024
I'd come whizzing into the city center on my bicycle. Past the taxi rank where vendors sell oranges, Lux soap, cassettes, and haircuts; past the dilapidated Georgeson Mansions where Isigqi Sesimanje's Joana overlooks the noisy taxi rank from her sixth-floo ...
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Book · August 11, 2017
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's h ...
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Book · July 21, 2017
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Af ...
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Journal articleAnnual Review of Anthropology · October 21, 2010
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history a ...
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Journal articleAnnual Review of Anthropology · October 21, 2010
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as c ...
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Fine art · March 2004
A collaborative sound-sight exhibition featuring the photography of TJ Lemon with a sound installation by John Bower using the field recordings of Louise Meintjes. Collaboration co-ordinated by Louise Meintjes. John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. ...
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