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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)
Sound and Sentiment Birds Weeping Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression - Conduct and Communication
Author: Steven Feld
Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system--that is, a system of symbols--among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. It shows how an analysis of modes and codes of sound communication leads to an understanding of life in Kaluli society. By studying the form and performance of we...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812211245
ISBN-10: 0812211243
Publication Date: 6/1/1982
Pages: 312
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Paperback
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