...Matthew Engelke Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Word, Image, Sound,” a collection of essays on public religion and religious publicities in Africa and South Asia. The essays cover case studies in Myanmar, Zambia, Senegal, Rwanda, and Egypt. The introduction situates the essays...

...Jeremy Dell Abstract Sound control policies already had a long history in the French-controlled settlements of the Senegalese coast by the time the prefect of Dakar issued a decree in 1953 prohibiting the use of loudspeakers on public roads and in the open-air courtyards of private residences...

... between power and sound during Ramadan. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Ramadan night studies urban Islam technology sound religion This article stems from a workshop organized by Daniel-Joseph MacArthur Seal in the British Institute at Ankara, April 2015. I thank...

...Andrea Mariko Grant Abstract This article explores Pentecostal sounds and voice in postgenocide Rwanda. It centers on the question of why gospel singers were criticized for crossing over into “secular” music after beginning their careers in the church. Joining scholarship that examines...

... Indian style. Eisenberg argues that Swahili musicians and audiences derive pleasure and meaning from Indian taarab 's paradoxical presentation of Indian sounds as Swahili expressions, and that this positions the genre as a vehicle for public reflection on Swahili ethnicity. Focusing on the voice...

... (1985), the Manhattan Trilogy (1993–2002), Sound Barrier (2005), and Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008). The analysis foregrounds continuities of displacement and confinement between Naderi’s films about Iran and his subsequent portraits of the United States. The journeys and paths undertaken...

... distinctly modern, transnational cultural practices emerged in Istanbul's illustrated press, determining the parameters, albeit ambiguous, around modern life. One such debate centered upon jazz and its respective dances, namely the Charleston. Jazz represented a distinctively interwar, transnational sound...

...Claire Brandon This article investigates miniature painter Shahzia Sikander's work in animation. It begins by providing background on Sikander's earlier animation work since 2001 and by exploring the use of sound, image, and digital technology in these works. These animations are made from many...

...Panashe Chigumadzi; Imraan Coovadia; Arash Davari; Bongani Kona; Elleni Centime Zeleke Abstract This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence...

... These hard news techniques meant processing Conduits and Connections testimonies for the hardest sound bites, getting In a sense, one of Krog’s tasks as a journalist re- around limits on language use, and layering laying the TRC hearings is to serve as a conduit...

..., and in that place, the remote edge of Cairo. There the city petered out into a scattering of villas leading into tranquil country fi elds. On the other side of our house was the profound, unsurpassable quiet of the desert. There was, to begin with, always the sound—sometimes no more than...

... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Our current issue opens with a special section titled “Word, Image, Sound,” edited by Matthew Engelke, which charts new directions in the study of religious life and experience. Each of the essays in this section move beyond considerations...

... — for now — with a response to these contributions from Partha Chatterjee. The next section of the journal, “Histories of the Night,” begins with a group of articles exploring how new technologies of sound and light transformed public space and social interaction in late Otto- man history. Avner...

... . Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory, and Cultural Practices . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2009 . Brunner Benny dir. The Great Book Robbery . Amsterdam : 2911 Foundation, Xela Films, 2013. DVD, 57 min. Buali Sheyma . “ Expanding the Archive: Jumana Manna...

...- in a discourse prior to Euclidean or Cartesian ing is permitted to speak. Ahmed’s childhood space” (149). History, in this sense, shifts from world is peopled by multiple sounds: of wind a single teleological aim in homogeneous time, in the trees and a “secret cinema” cast by the as conceived within...

... of The Tale of the Rumi is filled with the sound of love or the beloved, be Reed (Nay Namih).7 it Shams or Husam al-Din, both of whom Rumi consid- The Tale of the Reed (Nay Namih)—the well known ered to have been united with the divine.8 Reynold A. opening thirty-five lines...

... and the singularity we try to understand. Triggered substantially by of experience they allow for. sounds and images, stories and narratives, feel- ings, tastes or smells, these imaginations are often The Indian...

... and intelligible through sound— ders between Zion and Arabia converge, star- the breath “of the wind in the trees, each variety tling us with their parallelisms in an age of their of tree having its own music, its own...

... tradition lies in his theorization of the most prevalent poetic style of Marwari, the vayan sagai (affinity of letters)—a figure of speech ( shabdalankara ) denoting a great affinity of similar sounds or letters within a given verse. Manch's innovation lies in theorizing this literary style by societal...

..., the latter is seen to be a creative pursuit consisting of textual artifacts that have no confluence with the ocean. I approach the dhow and the media goods it transported as infrastructures of a media modernity and templates for sound and screen cultures on the Indian coast. The geographical area...