Sounding Situated Knowledges - Echo in Archaeoacoustics

This article proposes that feminist epistemologies via Donna Haraway's “Situated Knowledges” can be productively brought to bear upon theories of sonic knowledge production, as “sounding situated knowledges.” Sounding situated knowledges re-reads debates around the “nature of sound” with a Harawayan notion of the “natureculture of sound.” This aims to disrupt a traditional subject-object relation which I argue has perpetuated a pervasive “sonic naturalism” in sound studies. The emerging field of archaeoacoustics (acoustic archaeology), which examines the role of sound in human behaviour in archaeology, is theorized as an opening with potentially profound consequences for sonic knowledge production which are not currently being realized. The echo is conceived as a material-semiotic articulation, which akin to Haraway's infamous cyborg, serves as a feminist figuration which enables this renegotiation. Archaeoacoustics research, read following Haraway both reflectively and diffractively, is understood as a critical juncture for sound studies which exposes the necessity of both embodiedness and situatedness for sonic knowledge production. Given the potential opened up by archaeoacoustics through the figure of echo, a critical renegotiation of the subject-object relation in sound studies is suggested as central in further developing theories of sonic knowledge production

Introduction: Toward an Engaged Feminist Heritage Praxis

We advocate a feminist approach to archaeological heritage work in order to transform heritage practice and the production of archaeological knowledge. We use an engaged feminist standpoint and situate intersubjectivity and intersectionality as critical components of this practice. An engaged feminist approach to heritage work allows the discipline to consider women’s, men’s, and gender non-conforming persons’ positions in the field, to reveal their contributions, to develop critical pedagogical approaches, and to rethink forms of representation. Throughout, we emphasize the intellectual labor of women of color, queer and gender non-conforming persons, and early white feminists in archaeology

Evolutionary Genetics of African Toads (Anura: Bufonidae: Amietophrynus)

African true toads (frog genus Amietophrynus) include 39 morphologically conserved species that live in a panoply of habitats from the fringes of the Sahara to the mountains of South Africa. We examined the evolutionary relationships of these African bufonids by sequencing a 550 bp fragment of the 16S mitochondrial gene, and based on these results, collected a further 4 kb of combined mitochondrial (12S–16S) and nuclear (CXCR4, POMC, and RAG1) sequence data from sixty-two divergent samples of the genus Amietophrynus, and several bufonid outgroups. DNA sequences were analyzed with maximum parsimony,maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference with the programs PAUP, RAxML and MrBayes v.3.1, respectively, after appropriate models of nucleotide substitution were identified in the program jModelTest. Our phylogeny agrees in most respects with the results of the most comprehensive, previously published hypothesis investigating the relationships of African bufonids (e.g., the monophyly of African Amietophrynus is well supported). However, our improved taxonomic sampling and resulting phylogeny supports several novel relationships, elucidates chromosome evolution in the group, demonstrates the importance of the Congo Basin as a center of endemism, and notes widespread cryptic speciation, suggesting that current diversity of Amietophrynus is vastly underestimated

FIGURE 7 in Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

FIGURE 7. Photos of Afrixalus phantasma sp. nov. in life. Adult male holotype, ZFMK 103454 (field no. JMD 723), from Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Rwanda, in the habitat showing nighttime coloration (A), adult male paratype, ZFMK 103460 (field no. JMD 679) from Kamiranzovu Swamp, Nyungwe National Park, showing daytime coloration in dorsal (B) and ventral views (C), adult male paratype UTEP 20802 (EBG 1198) from Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC (D), photographed the morning after capture.Published as part of <i>Greenbaum, Eli, Portik, Daniel M., Allen, Kaitlin E., Vaughan, Eugene R., Badjedjea, Gabriel, Barej, Michael F., Behangana, Mathias, Conkey, Nancy, Dumbo, Bonny, Gonwouo, Legrand N., Hirschfeld, Mareike, Hughes, Daniel F., Igunzi, Félix, Kusamba, Chifundera, Lukwago, Wilber, Masudi, Franck M., Penner, Johannes, Reyes, Jesús M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Roelke, Corey E., Romero, Soraya & Dehling, J. Maximilian, 2022, Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift, pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 5174 (3)</i> on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6986207">http://zenodo.org/record/6986207</a&gt

FIGURE 12 in Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

FIGURE 12. Photos of Afrixalus lacustris sp. nov. in life. Adult male holotype (UTEP 20805), from the vicinity of Kalundu (03.15552° S, 28.42108° E, 1482 m), South Kivu Province, DRC in dorsal (A) and (B) ventral views, adult female (UTEP 20809) from Baraka, near shore of Lake Tanganyika, South Kivu Province, DRC (C), adult female (EPLU 395) from Epulu, Ituri Province, DRC (D), adult male (UTEP 22417) from Toyokana, Ituri Province, DRC (E), individual of unknown sex (DFH 1102) from Ngogo Research Center, Kibale Forest National Park, Western Region, Uganda (F). All photos taken the morning after capture.Published as part of <i>Greenbaum, Eli, Portik, Daniel M., Allen, Kaitlin E., Vaughan, Eugene R., Badjedjea, Gabriel, Barej, Michael F., Behangana, Mathias, Conkey, Nancy, Dumbo, Bonny, Gonwouo, Legrand N., Hirschfeld, Mareike, Hughes, Daniel F., Igunzi, Félix, Kusamba, Chifundera, Lukwago, Wilber, Masudi, Franck M., Penner, Johannes, Reyes, Jesús M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Roelke, Corey E., Romero, Soraya & Dehling, J. Maximilian, 2022, Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift, pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 5174 (3)</i> on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6986207">http://zenodo.org/record/6986207</a&gt

FIGURE 8 in Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

FIGURE 8. Photos of the preserved holotype of Afrixalus phantasma sp. nov. (ZFMK 103454) in dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views (to scale), and plantar view of the left foot (C). Photos of the preserved holotype of A. lacustris sp. nov. (UTEP 20805) in dorsal (D) and ventral (E) views (to scale), and plantar view of the left foot (F).Published as part of <i>Greenbaum, Eli, Portik, Daniel M., Allen, Kaitlin E., Vaughan, Eugene R., Badjedjea, Gabriel, Barej, Michael F., Behangana, Mathias, Conkey, Nancy, Dumbo, Bonny, Gonwouo, Legrand N., Hirschfeld, Mareike, Hughes, Daniel F., Igunzi, Félix, Kusamba, Chifundera, Lukwago, Wilber, Masudi, Franck M., Penner, Johannes, Reyes, Jesús M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Roelke, Corey E., Romero, Soraya & Dehling, J. Maximilian, 2022, Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift, pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 5174 (3)</i> on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6986207">http://zenodo.org/record/6986207</a&gt

FIGURE 9 in Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

FIGURE 9. Audiospectrogram (top) and corresponding waveform (bottom) of a five-note advertisement call of a paratype (ZFMK 103459) of Afrixalus phantasma sp. nov. recorded on 11 March 2011 at Kamiranzovu swamp, Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.Published as part of <i>Greenbaum, Eli, Portik, Daniel M., Allen, Kaitlin E., Vaughan, Eugene R., Badjedjea, Gabriel, Barej, Michael F., Behangana, Mathias, Conkey, Nancy, Dumbo, Bonny, Gonwouo, Legrand N., Hirschfeld, Mareike, Hughes, Daniel F., Igunzi, Félix, Kusamba, Chifundera, Lukwago, Wilber, Masudi, Franck M., Penner, Johannes, Reyes, Jesús M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Roelke, Corey E., Romero, Soraya & Dehling, J. Maximilian, 2022, Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift, pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 5174 (3)</i> on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6986207">http://zenodo.org/record/6986207</a&gt