The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of the key themes and debates relating to the academic study of sound within a broader anthropological context. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and highly instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology.