The Cave Mouth and the Giant Voice
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: B - Social Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : B - Social Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 185903600
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- March
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SoSS
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The output has three components: 1) A book chapter analysing the role of sound and voice in Okinawan war memories. 2) A 10-minute experimental film on the same topic, commissioned as a curated art film installation by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann for an Imperial War Museum public exhibition ‘Staging Disorder’ at London College of Communication, University of the Arts. 3) Contextual information, provided in a PDF, explaining the film’s rationale, production, methodology and dissemination; it includes an image of the installation at the exhibition. The installation was designed into a small darkened room with a 5.1 audio soundtrack played as a loop. The film features the words of a survivor of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the sounds of the cave where the experiences he recounts took place and where he was interviewed (beneath his village near the US airbase of Kadena). The film is an ethnographic analysis of the role that environmental sound plays as a trigger of post-conflict traumatic experience. A multi-modal method of description, involving a calibrated, immersive sound design and a black screen with the interviewee’s words rendered as “image-texts” on the screen, was developed in the film to address the shortcomings of the standard ‘Impact of Event Scale-Revised’ tool used in psychological models and methods to measure trauma and late onset post-traumatic stress disorder. This self-reporting measure, which has been used in Okinawa, is based on a numerical scale to evaluate the intensity of trauma: it fails to account for subjects’ use of language or for environmental sound’s capacity to communicate the experience of the event away from its original site.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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