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Stimmen hören. Wissenspraktiken und restitutive Optionen kolonialer Tondokumente

Author(s): Claus, Jakob

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The article examines media practices of phonographic knowledge production in the context of German colonial ethnography. Two recordings from Micronesia that were created during ethnographic expeditions are analysed in a «close listening». The historical sound documents are understood as circulating and complex archival objects and investigated in terms of their recording context and contemporary mediality. This is because different media changes and regulations of the colonial archive determine what and who is «audible», and also indicate the potentials and limits of a media studies analysis. Against this background, the article argues for a responsible encounter with colonial sound documents and their voices, and asks about restitutive options

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Claus, Jakob: Stimmen hören. Wissenspraktiken und restitutive Optionen kolonialer Tondokumente. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 16 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 20-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23151.
@ARTICLE{Claus2024,
 author = {Claus, Jakob},
 title = {Stimmen hören. Wissenspraktiken und restitutive Optionen kolonialer Tondokumente},
 year = 2024,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23151}",
 volume = 16,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {20--32},
}
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