Introduction.

Similarly, as outlined above, the articles in this special section emphasize how the different song practices and experiences of song they present offer different understandings and I ways of knowing i that offer creative potentials for destabilizing logocentric understandings of language, and consequently of speech/song and text, in anthropology. Makeba insists that not only do the words matter in her songs but that "without language, there would be no song; without song, African music would not exist. As Robinson ([50]) shows, even when Indigenous people are invited to sing their own songs without attention to the structures those songs are embedded in may lead to further extractivism, let alone if anthropologists began singing their collaborators' songs. "To change settler colonial perception requires reorienting the form by which we share knowledge, the way we convey sound, song and music." Stéphane Aubinet's article presents the Indigenous singing practice of the Sámi, the yoik, as a way of knowing that entwines humans, the landscape, animals, and other aspects of experience through a process of making the other present through song. [Extracted from the article]