Facundo Petit D. and Professor of Anthropology (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina). Postdoctoral Fellow of the conicet (2021-2024). He participates in three research projects: the Anthropology of Religion Team (ear), Culturalia, and the Pallqa Archaeological and Anthropological Project. Some of his work can be consulted at: https://fyl.academia.edu/FacundoPetit

Realidades socioculturales

You Might Not Notice It. Sound Ethnography of a Blind Person Circulating in the City of Buenos Aires

  • Facundo Petit

This article explores the role of sound and listening in the everyday experience of transiting the urban space from blindness. For this, an ethnography is presented in which sound registrations, images and written anthropological interpretations, produced during a walk with a blind person, are mixed. Thus, the relationship between urban experience, the materiality of the city, and the movements carried out from blind sensoriality are addressed, proposing the possibility that urban studies incorporate an alternative ethnographic sensibility to all that is visual. The basis of this paper is a brief contextualization of the investigation, it continues with a conceptualization on the methodology of the sound ethnography, and then opens the doors to analysis of the blind sensorialities in urban movement and the relationship between the State, city and blindness in the production of an accessible city.