Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
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Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
（University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication）（Publications of the American Folklore Society, . New Series）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990
2nd ed
Available at 14 libraries
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 1979
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-291) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system--that is, a system of symbols--among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. It shows how an analysis of modes and codes of sound communication leads to an understanding of life in Kaluli society. By studying the form and performance of weeping, poetics, and song in relation to the Kaluli natural and spiritual world, Steven Feld reveals Kaluli sound expressions as embodiments of deeply felt sentiments.For this second edition the author has updated his original work with a new, innovative chapter that includes an interpretive review by its subjects, the Kaluli people themselves. He has also written a new preface and discography and revised the references section.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment5. Song That Moves Men to Tears6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli AestheticsPostscript, 1989Appendix. Kaluli Folk OrnithologyGlossary of Kaluli TermsReferencesDiscographyIndex
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