Full Description
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?
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
