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Informationen zum Autor Laura Kunreuther is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Klappentext Nepal's recent history is extraordinary: within a short span of time, the country endured a relatively peaceful 1990 revolution that reestablished democracy, a Maoist civil war, and the massacre of its royal family. As these dramatic changes were taking place, Nepalese society experienced an upsurge in both political and intimate discourse, and the two became intertwined as they developed. "Voicing Subjects" is an ethnography that explores that phenomenon, tracing the relationship between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu by examining the two formations of voice that emerged: a political voice, associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, and an intimate voice, associated with emotional proximity and authentic feeling. Using personal interviews and examples in the media--in particular, radio--Kunreuther's careful study reveals the figure of voice as a critical tool for gaining an in-depth understanding of emerging subjectivity, structural change, and cultural mediation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms Introduction: Public Intimacy and Voicing Subjects in Kathmandu 1. Intimate Callings and Voices of Reform: Law, Property, and Familial Love 2. Seeing Face and Hearing Voice: Tactile Vision and Signs of Presence 3. Making Waves: The Social and Political Context of FM Radio 4. Mero Katha, Mero Git: Affective Publics, Public Intimacy, and Voiced Writing 5. Diasporic Voices: Sounds of the Diaspora in Kathmandu Epilogue: Royal Victims, Voicing Subjects Notes References Index
