The body and being embodied are fundamental modes of our existence. Voice extends the body, it also represents a human being outside of his/her body, for example by being recorded on a storage device. Technology may separate the voice from bodily organs and in doing so, it replaces the body, it takes the body’s place. Thus, which anthropological ideas are formed by such a separation of body and voice? Is a voice without a human body still part of a person? And how does it influence anthropological concepts if the original producer of the voice is technology itself rather than a human body?
This issue deals with the interrelation between body, voice, technology, and religion with selected articles from different disciplines.