Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression

by Feld and Steven Feld

This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment introduced the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. After it was first published in 1982, a second edition, incorporating additional field research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278291
• ISBN13: 9780812278293
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.