Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds
Pamela Moro, "Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds "
English | ISBN: 113860514X | 2018 | 140 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 113860514X | 2018 | 140 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds examines the violin as an object of meaning in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, and as a vehicle for introducing anthropological issues. Each chapter highlights concepts as taught in lower-level anthropology courses, and includes teaching and learning tools. Chapters range from a memoir-like social biography of a single instrument to explorations of violins in relation to technology, labor, the environment, migration, globalization, childhood, cultural understandings of talent and virtuosity, and prestige.
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