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
