Steven Feld

A Sweet Lullaby for World Music

1. Music’s deep connection to social identities has been distinctively intensified by globalization. This intensification is due to the ways cultural separation and social exchange are mutually accelerated by transnational flows of technology, media, and popular culture. The result is that musical identities and styles are more visibly transient, more audibly in states of constant fission and fusion than ever before. 2. Our era is increasingly dominated by fantasies and realizations of sonic virtuality. Not only does contemporary technology make all musical worlds actually or potentially transportable and hearable in all others, but this transportability is something fewer and fewer people take in any way to be remarkable. As sonic virtuality is increasingly naturalized, everyone’s musical world will be felt and experienced as both more definite and more vague, specific yet blurred, particular but general, in place and in motion. 3. It has taken only one hundred years for sound recording technologies to amplify sonic exchange to a point that overwhelms prior and contiguous his-

Communication, Music, and Speech about Music

La musique comme processus de communication et les representations verbales de la communication musicale.

Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author

This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Felds 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 Bosavis recent history and reflects on the challenges it poses for contemporary theory and representation.

Themes in the cinema of Jean Rouch

This paper discusses major themes in Jean Rouchs cinema for the purpose of illuminating their interdependence with a conception of ethnographic practice. Four themes appear central to the corpus of Rouchs work. The most crucial of these is the attempt to create a filmic synthesis of the theories of Robert Flaherty and Dziga Vertov. From that synthesis follows the attempt to elaborate a method of cinema‐verite and cinema‐direct; the attempt to create a genre of filmic ethnographic fiction; and a preoccupation with filmic conventions of personal reflexivity, authorship, and anthropologie partagee. These themes are analyzed with reference to Rouchs writings and films.

Reduction of canine infarct size by bolus intravenous administration of liposomal prostaglandin E1: Comparison with control, placebo liposomes, and continuous intravenous infusion of prostaglandin E1

Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) reduces experimental infarct size when administered by prolonged low-dose left atrial infusion during coronary occlusion. Liposomal delivery of PGE1 may enhance biologic activity and limit adverse hemodynamic effects. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that intravenous bolus administration of liposomal PGE1 (TLC C-53, The Liposome Company, Princeton, N.J.) during coronary occlusion would result in myocardial salvage. We compared TLC C-53 (0.5 microgram/kg intravenous bolus at 10 and 100 min of occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery [LAD]), free PGE1 (0.1 microgram/kg/min infused 10 min after LAD occlusion until reperfusion), placebo liposomes, and control (n = 7 for each group) in an open-chest canine model of 2 hours of LAD occlusion and reperfusion. Infarct size as a percentage of risk area (mean +/- SD) in the control group (58.4% +/- 20.0%) was similar to that in animals given placebo liposomes (53.1% +/- 12.6%) but was significantly reduced in the groups given TLC C-53 (33.5% +/- 9.2%; p < 0.01) or free PGE1 (37.2% +/- 4.8%; p < 0.05) groups. Infarct salvage was significant (p < 0.05) for the TLC C-53-and PGE1-treated dogs compared with the control dogs, independent of collateral blood flow by analysis of covariance. Moreover, the ischemic-zone blood flow during reperfusion was significantly higher in the TLC C-53 group compared with the control group or the group receiving free PGE1. Neutrophil infiltration of ischemic myocardium was significantly inhibited by TLC C-53 as determined by myeloperoxidase assay. Unlike free PGE1, TLC C-53 did not cause significant tachycardia or hypotension during therapy. In conclusion, TLC C-53 administered intravenously during coronary occlusion significantly reduced infarct size, limited neutrophil infiltration, and improved myocardial blood flow during reperfusion without adverse hemodynamic consequences.

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

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment5. Song That Moves Men to Tears6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli AestheticsPostscript, 1989Appendix. Kaluli Folk OrnithologyGlossary of Kaluli TermsReferencesDiscographyIndex

Rotational atherectomy with a new device : Initial clinical experience

The Bard Atherectomy Catheter is a new rotational atherectomy device that consists of a flexible, hollow, thin-walled cutting catheter that, while rotated at 1,500 revolutions per minute, is advanced across the lesion over a special spiral guidewire system. We report the initial clinical experience with this device in 20 peripheral lesions in ten patients. The majority of patients were treated for limb salvage. All lesions were successfully intervened on by atherectomy followed by adjunctive balloon angioplasty. A reduction to less than 50% stenosis was achieved in 13 of the 20 lesions (65%) after atherectomy but in all 20 lesions (100%) after adjunctive angioplasty for all lesions and stenting for dissections in two. Baseline minimal lesion lumen diameter was 0.8 +/- 0.7 mm with a reference vessel diameter of 4.2 +/- 1.7 mm (75 +/- 21% stenosis). The lumen improved to 2.0 +/- 0.8 mm (45 +/- 19% stenosis) (P < 0.001) following atherectomy and to 3.9 +/- 1.9 mm (13 +/- 16% stenosis) (P < 0.001) after adjunctive angioplasty. The average weight of removed atheroma was 45 +/- 58 mg. All ten patients had initial improvement in symptoms. At 6 months follow-up there was persistent improvement in eight patients and two subjects had undergone amputations. Our early clinical experience with this low profile, flexible atherectomy device, that enables extraction of a large amount of atheroma, suggests that it will become a valuable addition to current atherectomy technologies in small- and medium-sized vessels. The value of this device in coronary vessels is under investigation.

Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People

The Mouse Ceremony begins Suya vocal art: From speech to song The origins of songs Singing as a creative activity From lab to field: The mystery of rising pitch in a rainy season song Leaping, dancing and singing the Mouses song Why Suya sing

Three Films by Hugo Zemp

The Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari. Hugo Zemp, director; DVD, color, 73mins., 1998. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources (see below); institutional sale US

Twenty-nine Days into the War: War Journal Notes

245; individual sale US