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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feld, Steven.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.; thirtieth anniversary ed. with a new introduction.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the landmark ethnography that introduced the anthropology, or the cultural study, of sound.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781283657693

1283657694

9780822395898

0822395894

OCLC:

813529053