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dc.contributor.authorMusharbash, Yasmine
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-08
dc.date.available2019-02-08
dc.date.issued2016-01-01
dc.identifier.citationMusharbash, Y. (2016). A Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncanny. Semiotic Review, 2, 1-11.en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/19967
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/14
dc.description.abstractThe crux of this essay is that birdsong—something generally thought of a pleasing and enjoyable—can function, in certain contexts, as an indexical sign of the presence of evil in the world. I narratively contrast notions of the unknown as eerie with the uncanny at home, while simultaneously extending the notion of home to the world though ethnographic examples from fieldwork with Warlpiri people in central Australia. I explore the links between sounds and the uncanny, putting forward that what constitutes the uncanny is culturally specific, and highlight this point through contextualising and contrasting the central Australian case with examples from elsewhere: the Middle Ages, colonial Australia, Horror movies, and so on.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipFT130100415 is http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130100415en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherSemiotic Reviewen_AU
dc.relationFT130100415 is http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130100415en_AU
dc.subjectsounds and the uncannyen_AU
dc.subjectethno-ornithologyen_AU
dc.subjectAboriginal Australiaen_AU
dc.subjecthorroren_AU
dc.subjectbird songen_AU
dc.titleA Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncannyen_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
dc.type.pubtypePost-printen_AU


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