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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
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Columbia University Libraries