Toward an anthropology of ambient sound / edited by Christine Guillebaud.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multiple listenings : anthropology of sound worlds / Christine Guillebaud -- Noising the city : revealing popular Neapolitan "soundciabilities" in pyrotechnical practices / Olivier Féraud -- Sounds of Hell and sounds of Eden : sonic worlds in Ethiopia in the Catholic missionary context, 17th-18th centuries / Anne Damon-Guillot -- An "obscene" calling : emotionality in/of marginalized spaces : a listening of/into "abusive" women in Govindpuri (Delhi) / Tripta Chandola -- Standing out from the crowd : vocal and sound techniques for catching peoples' attention in an Indian bus stand / Christine Guillebaud -- Melodic refrains in Japanese train stations : the management of passenger behavior through the use of electric bells / Pierre Manea -- Acoustic communities represented : sound preferences in the Scottish village of Dollar / Heikki Uimonen -- Mics in the ears : how to ask people in Cairo to talk about their sound universes / Vincent Battest -- Mapping out the sounds of urban transformation : the renewal of Lisbon's Mouraria Quarter / Iñigo Sánchez -- Listening to the city : the sonorities of urban gowth in Barcelona / Claire Guiu -- Not just tones, noises too! : on sound poetry / Jean-Charles Depaule -- Tribute to a footbridge : contact dance and sound spaces improvisations in Choisy-le-Roi / Vincent Rioux -- Afterword : the sonic attunement of social life / Jean-Paul Thibaud.