TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - An anthropologist underwater: Immersive soundscapes, submarine cyborgs, and transductive ethnography
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Helmreich, Stefan
SP  - 621
EP  - 641
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
N2  - In this article, I deliver a first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin. I examine multiple meanings of immersion: as a descent into liquid, an absorption in activity, and the all-encompassing entry of an anthropologist into a cultural medium. Tuning in to the rhythms of what I call the “submarine cyborg”—“doing anthropology in sound,” as advocated by Steven Feld and Donald Brenneis (2004)—I show how interior and exterior soundscapes create a sense of immersion, and I argue that a transductive ethnography can make explicit the technical structures and social practices of sounding, hearing, and listening that support this sense of sonic presence.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.621
ID  - ref1
ER  -