For an anthropology of sound milieux - Perspectives from India

Christine Guillebaud (1)

1 LESC - Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative

Focused on different sound milieux in India, this paper examines public sites (residential areas, bus stations, Hindu temples, markets, etc.) as spaces for social interactions, cultivating different attention modalities and shaping specific social imaginaries. The ethnography is based on the study of ritual sound worlds (and public callings for praying), sonic tactics of merchants, techniques of distortion, sonic communication, and other manners to attribute to these sites a cultural identity as well as for users to share a community. Ambient sounds occupy several dimensions of daily life as well as political relationships. This paper is an introductory approach to the study of ambient sounds in their socio-cultural context of production and reception.

Mots clés: anthropology; India; public areas; interactions; representations

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Sociologie

Christine Guillebaud. For an anthropology of sound milieux - Perspectives from India. Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012, Sep 2012, Montreal, Canada. pp.317-322. ⟨halshs-00745953⟩