Tom Rice
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589356 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tom Rice |
| PRENOMES | Tom |
| SOBRENOME | Rice |
| ASSINATURA | RICE T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7674-030X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Listening to the Zoo
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under Grant ES/R009554/1
A desirable privation
This article describes and discusses a set of exercises in silent zoo visiting conducted at two zoos in the Southwest of the UK in 2019. The visits were part of a wider project on the auditory culture of zoos, institutions which have tended to be analysed by reference to their concern with the visual display of captive other-than-human animals (henceforth animals). Linking ideas on silence that have emerged from work in anthropology and sound stu…
Chris Grosvenor, Cinema on the Front Line
In introducing Cinema on the Front Line, Chris Grosvenor observes that during World War I, ‘cinema intersected with the lives of British soldiers at nearly every point of their military career’ (p. 2). Indeed the book is structured around the shifting experience of the British soldier during the Great War, from recruitment to the front line and finally to the soldier’s rehabilitation, ‘if he was fortunate enough to survive’ (p. 7). This caveat ru…
On the voyage of rediscovery
Listening after the animals
In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross-species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pas…
Questioning Acoustemology
This interview with Steven Feld explores the development and implications of acoustemology, a field of inquiry that emphasizes the role of sound in shaping cultural knowledge and experience. Rice and Feld discuss the origins of the term, its relationship to ethnomusicology and sensory anthropology, and its potential for understanding the interplay between sound, environment, and social practices. They delve into specific examples from Feld's ethn…
War in Peace
The 1920 Fox Film Corporation picture, The Face at Your Window confronts the contemporary issue of labor agitation in a modern industrial town and features as its hero Frank Maxwell, the head of the local American Legion.Maxwell works in his father's factory mill and after he falls for Ruth, the "pretty daughter of an immigrant worker," is stabbed in the back by Ivan, another immigrant worker jealous of their relationship and critical of his fami…
Films for the Colonies
Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new his…
War in Peace
The American Legion emerged in March 1919, in the immediate aftermath of world war, a point at which the focus of conservative discourse and government policy shifted from overseas campaigns to domestic threats, from military to political targets. This chapter, by Tom Rice, examines the myriad ways in which the hugely influential American Legion used film at this critical juncture, extending military activities and imperatives into the postwar na…
Acoustemology
“Acoustemology” conjoins the words “acoustic” and “epistemology” to refer to a sonic way of knowing and being in the world. The term was introduced by anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Steven Feld following his fieldwork among the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea. He sought to describe the highly developed practices of listening, hearing, and sounding that characterized Kaluli engagement with their rainforest environment. Feld also used the term “ac…
Are You Proud to Be British
The Colonial Film Unit (CFU) (1939–1955) produced over 200 films, which were exhibited non-theatrically to African audiences through its fleet of mobile cinema vans. While the CFU closely monitored, and theorised on, its film texts, the particular ways in which these films were exhibited and received was afforded far less attention and remains critically overlooked by scholars. In this article, I examine the development of the mobile film show ac…
Sounds inside
Drawing on a set of first-hand written accounts of imprisonment, this article begins to open up the complexity of prison "soundscapes" from the perspective of prisoners. The accounts suggest that in many respects prisoners are a "captive audience" to the sonic environment in which they are held. They are subjected to a variety of sounds that they have limited capacity to avoid or control. But prisoners are not entirely deprived of "acoustical age…
Broadcasting the body
Exhibiting Africa
From the Inside
The hallmark of a doctor
The stethoscope, and its use in the medical examination, has become iconic of 'doctors' and their work. Drawing on fieldwork in a London hospital, this article explores why this is so. It argues that the application of this instrument in a clinical situation allows for a particularly neat enactment of key 'dispositions' of what might be described as a doctor 'habitus' (Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, 1980). Examining the politics of stethoscope …
Learning to listen
As part of their training, medical students in the United Kingdom are obliged to develop a degree of familiarity with the technique of stethoscopic listening, also known as auscultation. They must learn to handle and apply the stethoscope, and over time become adept at identifying and interpreting a range of sounds emitted by the body. The channelling and focusing of auditory attention demanded by auscultation is unfamiliar to students, and teach…
Beautiful Murmurs
Academic thought on the senses has tended to position objectification as intrinsic to vision and acts of looking (Grosz 1992). Audition and listening, on the other hand, have been imagined as creating an intimate and participatory form of sensory engagement which does not produce objectification (Stoller 1989; Gell 1995). Drawing on fieldwork conducted among medical students, this article details how the teaching of auscultation or stethoscopic l…
Soundselves
Changing identities and international relations theory
A contemporary theme in international relations holds that the loyalty of individuals toward states is in decline as individuals shift their identities toward supranational or subnational entities. Surprisingly there have been few attempts to track such shifts empirically. We use data from cross-national public opinion surveys to examine whether loyalties have changed in recent dacades. Our analysis suggests that loyalty to territorial states has…
Voting in Iowa's 1980 and 1992 ERA referendums
Weather Forecasters Should Be So Accurate
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Future fields
This introductory piece to the special issue "Future Fields" in Anthropology Matters explores the emerging intersections of anthropology and futures studies. Rice and Berg argue for the importance of anthropological perspectives in understanding and shaping future possibilities, highlighting the discipline's unique ability to analyze cultural change, power dynamics, and human experience. They suggest that anthropology can contribute to futures th…
Soundselves
Learning to listen
As part of their training, medical students in the United Kingdom are obliged to develop a degree of familiarity with the technique of stethoscopic listening, also known as auscultation. They must learn to handle and apply the stethoscope, and over time become adept at identifying and interpreting a range of sounds emitted by the body. The channelling and focusing of auditory attention demanded by auscultation is unfamiliar to students, and teach…
Sounds inside
Drawing on a set of first-hand written accounts of imprisonment, this article begins to open up the complexity of prison "soundscapes" from the perspective of prisoners. The accounts suggest that in many respects prisoners are a "captive audience" to the sonic environment in which they are held. They are subjected to a variety of sounds that they have limited capacity to avoid or control. But prisoners are not entirely deprived of "acoustical age…
Beautiful Murmurs
Academic thought on the senses has tended to position objectification as intrinsic to vision and acts of looking (Grosz 1992). Audition and listening, on the other hand, have been imagined as creating an intimate and participatory form of sensory engagement which does not produce objectification (Stoller 1989; Gell 1995). Drawing on fieldwork conducted among medical students, this article details how the teaching of auscultation or stethoscopic l…
The hallmark of a doctor
The stethoscope, and its use in the medical examination, has become iconic of 'doctors' and their work. Drawing on fieldwork in a London hospital, this article explores why this is so. It argues that the application of this instrument in a clinical situation allows for a particularly neat enactment of key 'dispositions' of what might be described as a doctor 'habitus' (Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, 1980). Examining the politics of stethoscope …
Are You Proud to Be British
The Colonial Film Unit (CFU) (1939–1955) produced over 200 films, which were exhibited non-theatrically to African audiences through its fleet of mobile cinema vans. While the CFU closely monitored, and theorised on, its film texts, the particular ways in which these films were exhibited and received was afforded far less attention and remains critically overlooked by scholars. In this article, I examine the development of the mobile film show ac…
Questioning Acoustemology
This interview with Steven Feld explores the development and implications of acoustemology, a field of inquiry that emphasizes the role of sound in shaping cultural knowledge and experience. Rice and Feld discuss the origins of the term, its relationship to ethnomusicology and sensory anthropology, and its potential for understanding the interplay between sound, environment, and social practices. They delve into specific examples from Feld's ethn…
Listening after the animals
In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross-species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pas…
Films for the Colonies
Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new his…
Listening to the Zoo
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under Grant ES/R009554/1
Changing identities and international relations theory
A contemporary theme in international relations holds that the loyalty of individuals toward states is in decline as individuals shift their identities toward supranational or subnational entities. Surprisingly there have been few attempts to track such shifts empirically. We use data from cross-national public opinion surveys to examine whether loyalties have changed in recent dacades. Our analysis suggests that loyalty to territorial states has…
Future fields
This introductory piece to the special issue "Future Fields" in Anthropology Matters explores the emerging intersections of anthropology and futures studies. Rice and Berg argue for the importance of anthropological perspectives in understanding and shaping future possibilities, highlighting the discipline's unique ability to analyze cultural change, power dynamics, and human experience. They suggest that anthropology can contribute to futures th…
Weather Forecasters Should Be So Accurate
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Voting in Iowa's 1980 and 1992 ERA referendums
Changing identities and international relations theory
A contemporary theme in international relations holds that the loyalty of individuals toward states is in decline as individuals shift their identities toward supranational or subnational entities. Surprisingly there have been few attempts to track such shifts empirically. We use data from cross-national public opinion surveys to examine whether loyalties have changed in recent dacades. Our analysis suggests that loyalty to territorial states has…
Soundselves
Beautiful Murmurs
Academic thought on the senses has tended to position objectification as intrinsic to vision and acts of looking (Grosz 1992). Audition and listening, on the other hand, have been imagined as creating an intimate and participatory form of sensory engagement which does not produce objectification (Stoller 1989; Gell 1995). Drawing on fieldwork conducted among medical students, this article details how the teaching of auscultation or stethoscopic l…
The hallmark of a doctor
The stethoscope, and its use in the medical examination, has become iconic of 'doctors' and their work. Drawing on fieldwork in a London hospital, this article explores why this is so. It argues that the application of this instrument in a clinical situation allows for a particularly neat enactment of key 'dispositions' of what might be described as a doctor 'habitus' (Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, 1980). Examining the politics of stethoscope …
Learning to listen
As part of their training, medical students in the United Kingdom are obliged to develop a degree of familiarity with the technique of stethoscopic listening, also known as auscultation. They must learn to handle and apply the stethoscope, and over time become adept at identifying and interpreting a range of sounds emitted by the body. The channelling and focusing of auditory attention demanded by auscultation is unfamiliar to students, and teach…
Exhibiting Africa
From the Inside
Broadcasting the body
Are You Proud to Be British
The Colonial Film Unit (CFU) (1939–1955) produced over 200 films, which were exhibited non-theatrically to African audiences through its fleet of mobile cinema vans. While the CFU closely monitored, and theorised on, its film texts, the particular ways in which these films were exhibited and received was afforded far less attention and remains critically overlooked by scholars. In this article, I examine the development of the mobile film show ac…
Sounds inside
Drawing on a set of first-hand written accounts of imprisonment, this article begins to open up the complexity of prison "soundscapes" from the perspective of prisoners. The accounts suggest that in many respects prisoners are a "captive audience" to the sonic environment in which they are held. They are subjected to a variety of sounds that they have limited capacity to avoid or control. But prisoners are not entirely deprived of "acoustical age…
War in Peace
The American Legion emerged in March 1919, in the immediate aftermath of world war, a point at which the focus of conservative discourse and government policy shifted from overseas campaigns to domestic threats, from military to political targets. This chapter, by Tom Rice, examines the myriad ways in which the hugely influential American Legion used film at this critical juncture, extending military activities and imperatives into the postwar na…
Acoustemology
“Acoustemology” conjoins the words “acoustic” and “epistemology” to refer to a sonic way of knowing and being in the world. The term was introduced by anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Steven Feld following his fieldwork among the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea. He sought to describe the highly developed practices of listening, hearing, and sounding that characterized Kaluli engagement with their rainforest environment. Feld also used the term “ac…
War in Peace
The 1920 Fox Film Corporation picture, The Face at Your Window confronts the contemporary issue of labor agitation in a modern industrial town and features as its hero Frank Maxwell, the head of the local American Legion.Maxwell works in his father's factory mill and after he falls for Ruth, the "pretty daughter of an immigrant worker," is stabbed in the back by Ivan, another immigrant worker jealous of their relationship and critical of his fami…
Films for the Colonies
Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new his…
Questioning Acoustemology
This interview with Steven Feld explores the development and implications of acoustemology, a field of inquiry that emphasizes the role of sound in shaping cultural knowledge and experience. Rice and Feld discuss the origins of the term, its relationship to ethnomusicology and sensory anthropology, and its potential for understanding the interplay between sound, environment, and social practices. They delve into specific examples from Feld's ethn…
On the voyage of rediscovery
Listening after the animals
In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross-species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pas…
Chris Grosvenor, Cinema on the Front Line
In introducing Cinema on the Front Line, Chris Grosvenor observes that during World War I, ‘cinema intersected with the lives of British soldiers at nearly every point of their military career’ (p. 2). Indeed the book is structured around the shifting experience of the British soldier during the Great War, from recruitment to the front line and finally to the soldier’s rehabilitation, ‘if he was fortunate enough to survive’ (p. 7). This caveat ru…
A desirable privation
This article describes and discusses a set of exercises in silent zoo visiting conducted at two zoos in the Southwest of the UK in 2019. The visits were part of a wider project on the auditory culture of zoos, institutions which have tended to be analysed by reference to their concern with the visual display of captive other-than-human animals (henceforth animals). Linking ideas on silence that have emerged from work in anthropology and sound stu…
Listening to the Zoo
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under Grant ES/R009554/1
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