The Voice of the Mountains: Radio and Anthropology

by Alan O'Connor

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761835370
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	07/26/2006
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	7.14(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Alan O'Connor is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from York University. He is the author of Raymond Williams from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, and editor and translator of Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miners Radio Stations.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Radio and Development Chapter 5 2. Oral Culture or Social Organization Chapter 6 3. The Mouth of the Wolf Chapter 7 4. Radio Voices and Knowable Communities Chapter 8 5. Beyond the Local Part 9 Appendices Chapter 10 Appendix A: Radio Latacunga Chapter 11 Appendix B: Aymaras and Christians Part 12 Bibliography Part 13 Index Part 14 About the Author