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A Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncanny

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dc.contributor.authorMusharbash, Yasmine
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-11T00:16:33Z
dc.date.available2020-11-11T00:16:33Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-10
dc.date.updated2020-07-06T08:29:30Z
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.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.citationMUSHARBASH, Yasmine. A Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncanny. Semiotic Review, [S.l.], n. 2, sep. 2016. Available at: <https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/14>en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0847-1622en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/215359
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSemiotic Review of Booksen_AU
dc.rights© 2016 Semiotic Reviewen_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceSemiotic Reviewen_AU
dc.source.urihttps://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/14en_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.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage11en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMusharbash, Yasmine, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMusharbash, Yasmine, u9902937en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu6269649xPUB26en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume2en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.semioticreview.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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