Sound and sentiment
Subtitle: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
By: Steven Feld
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: University of Pennsylvania Press conduct and communication series; University of Pennsylvania Press conduct and communication series; Publications of the American Folklore Society
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780585196886
Subjects: Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people); Social life and customs; Rites and ceremonies; Music; History and criticism; Folk music; Kaluli Folk songs; Birds; Mythology; Kaluli (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée); Mœurs et coutumes; Rites et cérémonies; Musique; Histoire et critique; Chansons folkloriques kaluli; Oiseaux; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-291) and index.
Table of contents: 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: Kaluli folk ornithology.