Transcription and the Senses

ABSTRACT

Focusing upon the act of transcription, this article argues for a need to push sensory ethnography further into the realm of analysis, with a greater attention to the question of how the senses can be better included in the analytical process that ever includes the entanglement of methods, materials, and theory. This article problematizes the technology of the page and argues for a need for scholars to understand transcription as much more than an issue of transferring sound to paper. Throughout the article the authors argue for a need to rethink cultural analyses as compositional practices.