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Citation: 

High, Steven. "Embodied Ways of Listening: Oral History, Genocide, and the Audio Tour." Anthropologica 55, no. 1 (2013): 73-85.

Abstract/Summary: 

Building on the work of sound artists Miller and Cardiff, oral historian Butler, as well as the broader insights gleaned from the Montréal Life Stories project, this paper considers space-time dissonance in the making of Une fleur dans la fleuve/A Flower in the River, a 53-minute audio walk following the commemorative path taken by the Rwandan community. The tour explores the personal meaning and legacy of mass violence through personal narratives of six Rwandan exiles and survivors. The audio tour produces for the listener the same kind of dissonance that Rwandan Montréalers live out on a day-to-day basis.

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Anthropologica