Postures of listening

Listening as an anthropological issue In his argument “against soundscape”, Ingold (2007) highlights the problematic status of sound in anthropology. Most researchers (Ingold included) agree with the physicalist definition of sound as pressure waves propagating through the air. Sticking to this definition, sound should be the auditory equivalent of light. However, Ingold remarks, it is more often, and apparently unproblematically, compared to sight (leading to concepts such as “soundscape”, w...