Sound and Sentiment Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd Edition with a New Introduction by the Author

Name: Sound and Sentiment Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
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ISBN: 9780822353652

ISBN-10: 0822353652

ISBN-13: 9780822353652

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Steven Feld

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This thirtieth anniversary edition ofSound and Sentimentmakes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi,Sound and Sentimentintroduced the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. After it was first published in 1982, a second edition, incorporating additional field research and a new postscript, was released in 1990. 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


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 Axe 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


References


Index


Additional Resources