@article{2f4c1df8d79c458382cfb6e963adb5c5,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "This special section explores song from a fundamental but unexplored perspective: as a way of knowing for anthropology. The themes touched upon include ontological politics and their relationship with anti- or decoloniality, the other-than-human, and the senses. Feld ([1982] 2012) has long argued for anthropology to attend to the epistemic importance of songs and sound, above all in his proposal for a synesthetic acoustemology (Feld 2015). However, the question of how this could apply to anthropological onto/epistemologies beyond projects focused on sound has yet to be addressed.",
author = "Caroline Gatt and Valeria Lembo",
note = "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Wewouldliketothankeveryonewhocontributedtoalltheworkshopsandcollaborativeprojectsthathaveledtothisspecialsection.Anymis-takesormisinterpretationsareentirelythefaultoftheauthors,GattandLembo.WegratefullyacknowledgetheEuropeanResearchCouncilwhichfundedthetwoworkshops,viatheKFIproject.TimIngold,LauraSiragusa,JoshBergaminandChristopherWilliamsreadandpatientlycommentedondraftsofthisintroduction,wefeelsomuchgratitude.SpecialthankstoBenSpatzforinvitingGatttoparticipateinthelabsfortheirAHRCLeadershipFellowshipprojectJudiaca,andfortheirextensiveworkonsongasepistemicpractice,includingfoundingtheJournalofEmbodiedResearch.WewouldalsoliketothanktheMultimodaleditors,andalltheanonymousreviewers,fortheirgenerousreviews.WearedeeplygratefultoElizabethChinforherbrillianteditorialguidanceandsupportforaprojectthathastakenmanyyearsandmanyresubmissionstoberealized,andtoDeborahThomaswhoaspreviouseditorinchiefacceptedtheproposalforthespecialsection.ManythankstoSeanMallinforhiscloseattentionandkeeninsightsincopyeditingthisandallothercontributionstothisspecialsection",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "12",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13785",
language = "English",
volume = "124",
pages = "830--840",
journal = "American Anthropologist",
issn = "0002-7294",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "4",
}