Sound and Sentiment
Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
Steven Feld (Author)
9780822353652
Paperback / softback, published 2 October 2012
277 pages, 27 illustrations
22.9 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.499 kg
"Sound and Sentiment is one of the greatest ethnographies ever written. Few books create new fields of inquiry; this work inaugurated the anthropology of the senses and played a crucial role in creating the anthropology of affect."-Charles L. Briggs, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
"One of the first books to successfully integrate ethnographic, musical, and linguistic analysis, Sound and Sentiment remains a model for such integration. In addition, it undergirds acoustemology, or the anthropology of sound, a scholarly tack that is accelerating, with no ritardando in sight."-Bonnie C. Wade, author of Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
"Written on the cusp of a shift in anthropology away from the influences of Claude LÉvi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, and Victor Turner, Sound and Sentiment does double duty in the classroom: it represents crucial changes in the discipline of the early 1980s, while continuing to animate debates about sound, listening, and aesthetics across cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, history, and folklore."-Louise Meintjes, author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
"This anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment includes a profound new introduction by Feld. . . . Sound and Sentiment was the seminal book on which the contemporary sound anthropology was founded in the 1970s."
- Meri Kytö (Popular Music)
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 and a new postscript, was released in 1990. The third edition includes all of the material from the first two editions, along with a substantial new introduction in which Feld discusses Bosavi's recent history and reflects on the challenges it poses for contemporary theory and representation.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction to the Third Edition xiii
Introduction to the Second Edition xxxix
Introduction to the First Edition 3
1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird 20
2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest 44
3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song 86
4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment 130
5. Song That Moves Men to Tears 163
6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli Aesthetics 217
Postscript, 1989 239
Appendix: Kaluli Folk Ornithology 269
Glossary of Kaluli Terms 279
References 284
Discography 292
Index 293
Additional Resources 299
