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This is a webpage based on material presented at the 2005 ASA conference held in Aberdeen in the session 'Creative modes and media in anthropological postgraduate research and dissemination', convened by Rachel Harkness and Anna Järpe.
The workshop investigates two unusual aspects of ethnographic methodology. Firstly, is about sound environments. Sounds are both made by people in a place and are constitutive of that place. They are part of our everyday engagement with our environments. Here, sound is used to characterise and evoke the places of research: a strategy for analysis and dissemination. Secondly, it is about movement. The workshop investigates how people can understand and perceive their environments by walking through them, and thus has movement and route-making as core concepts rather than the locality and stability implied by the ethnographic present.
You can listen to sounds recorded for our project about walking in the city and surroundings of Aberdeen. They include spoken words in different forms and the sounds of the city and the countryside. A booklet of transcriptions and commentaries on the clips can be downloaded.
Sound clips will be uploaded shortly...
Track 1: An Teallach - footsteps
Track 2: Glen Deskrie - finding the route
Track 3: The story of a murder on Urquhart Road
Track 4: Walkin' the mat
Track 5: Walking home from work
Track 6: Night time on Union Street
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