An Earwitness to History
Street Hawkers and Their Calls in Early 20th-Century Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ziad Fahmy (0000-0003-1756-6791, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-134 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743815001531 |
| OpenAlex | W2461438348 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
Historians have recently started listening to the past, contributing to what David Howes has described as a “sensorial revolution in the humanities and social sciences.” In the same way that all five senses are relevant to our daily understanding of the world around us, they should be vital to our understanding of historical events. Interpreting how peoples of the past sensorially experienced their world makes possible a richer, more comprehensive grasp of historical events. A sensorially grounded historical narrative is an embodied history that is connected to everyday people and lives. Historians of the Middle East, however, with few exceptions, are still largely producing soundproof, devocalized narratives of the past
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Everyday life · Literature · Narrative · Narrative history · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Communication · History · Law · Media, Communication, and Education
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Introducing Sensory Studies
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |