Ebook: Faszinosum 'Klang': Anthropologie - Medialität - kulturelle Praxis

The analysis of sound phenomena and their cultural functions has become a major field of research. Adopting an anthropological perspective, this book aims, among other things, to usefully integrate findings from the natural sciences. The essays explore the relationship of sound to cognition, cultural theory, literary aesthetics, mediality, artistic practice, and transcendence.