The Voice of the Mountains
Subtitle: Radio and Anthropology
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: August 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780761835370
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Radio; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Anthropology - Cultural; Radio - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Bolivia; Communication in anthropology; Ecuador; Ethnology
Description: Using tape recordings, videos, and the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams, this work examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture, and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuador and miners in Bolivia. Few anthropologists have studied radio, and The Voice of the Mountains is unique in its approach to the field. Alan O'Connor is not committed to a single research method--ethnography--but to a question about the relationship between radio and political struggles. This work questions, what is the field when studying radio broadcasting? The answer involves challenging the rules of ethnography and asking, what does it mean to follow radios?--Back cover.