The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics

Charles Hirschkind

September, 2006
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13818-5
$32.50 / £19.00

Acknowledgments

Note on Transcription

1. Introduction

2. Islam, Nationalism, and Audition

3. The Ethics of Listening

4. Cassettes and Counterpublics

5. Rhetorics of the Da&ayn;iya

6. The Acoustics of Death

7. Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Middle East Studies

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Charles Hirschkind is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coeditor, with David Scott, of Powers of the Secular Modern (Stanford 2005) and has published numerous articles on religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the Middle East.

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