Sound and sentiment
Subtitle: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
By: Steven Feld
Edition: 3rd ed.; thirtieth anniversary ed. with a new introduction.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham [NC}
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780822353652
Subjects: Social life and customs; Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people); History and criticism; Rites and ceremonies; Kaluli Folk songs; Music; Folk music; Mythology; Birds
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the third edition; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Introduction to the first edition; title: The boy who became a muni bird; title: To you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest; title: Weeping that moves women to song; title: The poetics of loss and abandonment; title: Song that moves men to tears; title: In the form of a bird : Kaluli aesthetics; title: Postscript, 1989; title: Appendix: Kaluli folk ornithology; title: Glossary of Kaluli terms.