Soundscape and Anthropomorphism in the European Culture of Early Modern Age. Paths to Decolonize Knowledge

This contribute focuses on the relationship between sound and human body metaphors, between soundscape and anthropomorphism, starting from a reasoning on value that has been culturally recognized to the concept of voice. It, for centuries on the scientific and religious horizon of European culture, would have been able to incorporate any other one. The aim is to launch an epistemological challenge to understand the varieties and forms of human or non-human sonorities beyond the thresholds of European universalism; i.e. beyond the boundaries of philosophical, religious and scientific current of thought that reached its peak in the Early Modern Age and that would have significantly deposited its colonial and imperial constructs also in the sphere of studies dedicated to sound environment and sonority.