Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century

Contents

>> v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Radio Fields 1 Lucas Bessire and Daniel Fisher 2 Aurality under Democracy: Cultural History of FM Radio and Ideologies of Voice in Nepal 48 Laura Kunreuther 3 From the Studio to the Street: Producing the Voice in Indigenous Australia 69 Daniel Fisher 4 Editing the Nation: How Radio Engineers Encode Israeli National Imaginaries 89 Danny Kaplan 5 Reconsidering Muslim Authority: Female “Preachers” and the Ambiguities of Radio-Mediated Sermonizing in Mali 108 Dorothea Schulz 6 Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca: Testimony and Participatory Democracy 124 Lynn Stephen 7 The Cultural Politics of Radio: Two Views from the Warlpiri Public Sphere 142 Melinda Hinkson 8 Frequencies of Transgression: Notes on the Politics of Excess and Constraint among Mexican Free Radios 160 Jeffrey S. Juris 9 “Foreign Voices”: Multicultural Broadcasting and Immigrant Representation at Germany’s Radio MultiKulti 179 Kira Kosnick vi << Contents 10 “We Go Above”: Media Metaphysics and Making Moral Life on Ayoreo Two-Way Radio 197 Lucas Bessire 11 Appalachian Radio Prayers: The Prosthesis of the Holy Ghost and the Drive to Tactility 215 Anderson Blanton 12 Radio in the (i)Home: Changing Experiences of Domestic Audio Technologies in Britain 233 Jo Tacchi 13 “A House of Wires upon Wires”: Sensuous and Linguistic Entanglements of Evidence and Epistemologies in the Study of Radio Culture 250 Debra Vidali-Spitulnik Radio Fields: An Afterword 268 Faye Ginsburg About the Contributors 279 Index 281 ...