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Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
- Title
- Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression / Steven Feld.
- Author
- Feld, Steven
- Publication
- Durham [NC}] : [Duke University Press], [2012]
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- Description
- 300 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
- 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 songs, Kaluli > Papua New Guinea > History and criticism
- Birds > Mythology > Papua New Guinea
- Birds > Papua New Guinea
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780822353652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822353652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012024696
- OCLC
- ocn798058349
- 798058349
- SCSB-5659516
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries