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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnomusicologists and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses ethnomusicologists and noise-induced hearing ...
Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Framing “African”: Music, Dance, and the Politics of Identity in Guyana's Emancipation Day Celebrations

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery and is observed annually by African Guyanese on the first Monday in August. Celebrations provide a space to honor ancestors, express gratitude, mourn, and engage in cultural rejuvenation through communal activities such as night vigils, libation ceremonies, drumming, dancing, and pilgrimages to ...
Gillian Richards‐Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Spinning the Past Forward: Recording, Archiving, and (Re‐)listening to Siberian Phonograph Cylinders From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing a Two-Way Street: An Argument for Interdisciplinary Collaboration through an Ethnomusicological Examination of Music Therapy, Medical Ethnomusicology, and Williams Syndrome

open access: yesVoices, 2015
In this article, I investigate the ways in which methodological exchange between the fields of medical ethnomusicology and music therapy (MT) creates an interdisciplinary two-way street which, on the one hand enhances therapeutic practice by adopting an ...
Alexandria Heaton Carrico
doaj   +1 more source

Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 363-372, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
wiley   +1 more source

When Performers Have Led the Way: Research, Collaboration, Performance, and Ethics

open access: yes, 2022
Some musicians were acting as applied ethnomusicologists long before the words “Ethnomusicology” and “Musicology” existed. Some musicians without university training or degrees have done excellent field research and collaborated with local musicians to ...
Seeger, Anthony
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

Le revival qui « revient »

open access: yesIn Situ
Ethnomusicological literature, in addressing the question of folk music revival, devotes little attention to a relevant phenomenon; that is, both the research of ethnomusicologists and performances of revival have had significant repercussions in the ...
Giovanni Giuriati
doaj   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

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