Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression / Steven Feld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feld, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.

Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people).

Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism.

Folk music--Papua New Guinea--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk songs, Kaluli--Papua New Guinea--History and criticism.

Folk songs, Kaluli.

Birds--Mythology--Papua New Guinea.

Birds.

Birds--Papua New Guinea.

Birds--Mythology.

Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people)--Music.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm

Edition:

Third edition ; thirtieth anniversary edition with a new introduction.

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment introduced the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. The third edition includes all of the material from the first two editions, along with a substantial new introduction in which Feld discusses Bosavi's recent history and reflects on the challenges it poses for contemporary theory and representation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

Introduction to the first edition

The boy who became a muni bird

To you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest

Weeping that moves women to song

The poetics of loss and abandonment

Song that moves men to tears

In the form of a bird : Kaluli aesthetics

Postscript, 1989

Appendix: Kaluli folk ornithology

Glossary of Kaluli terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822353652

0822353652

OCLC:

798058349