Sensory Media Anthropology

With this thread, the guest editors make a case for what they call sensory media anthropology: an anthropology that de-centers media and meaning-making practices in order to engage with sensuous, practical, and bodily knowledge related to engagements with media.

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Walls

October, 2024 / By Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, Niamh Ní Bhroin and Áine Mangaoang

Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […]

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Gut Feeling

October, 2024 / By Marie Gorm Aabo, Mónica Degen, Sanne Krogh Groth and Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I

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Moved

October, 2024 / By Leonardo Custódio, Marie Gorm Aabo and Meri Kytö

Leonardo Custódio: Cameras, Narratives and Actions in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Complexos (Finland/Brazil 2020) is a 26-minute-long film that

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Steps

October, 2024 / By Mónica Degen and Niamh Ní Bhroin

Mónica Degen Steps to move and change Steps can be both those we take every day, one foot after the

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Electricity

October, 2024 / By Sanne Krogh Groth, Niina Oisalo, Meri Kytö and Robert Willim

Sanne Krogh Groth Fragility of voltage Needless to say, electronic music has something to do with electricity. As a genre,

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Weather

October, 2024 / By Niina Oisalo, Meri Kytö and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

Niina Oisalo Weather, diary of the body Meri Kytö Weather walking In Venice, there is a habit of “andar sconte”

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Skin

October, 2024 / By Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, Mónica Degen and Leonardo Custódio

Mónica Degen The Reciprocity of Touch  Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities,

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Sensory Media Anthropology

October, 2024 / By Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, Meri Kytö and Niamh Ní Bhroin

WHAT IS SENSORY MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY? With this thread, we want to make a case for what we call sensory media