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The Value of Listening, and Really Listening …

The Value of Listening, and Really Listening … The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2021 Vol. 22, Nos. 2–3, pp. 232–234, https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1906549 The Value of Listening, and Really Listening … Iinus S. Digim’Rina I regret that my eyes are not adequate to notice and see everything around me, and that my brain hasn’t sufficient power to understand it all. (Nicholas Mikloucho- Maclay in Sentinella 1975, 103) Steven Feld’s Voices of the Rainforest (2019) has been, to me, a refreshing manifes- tation of my childhood life experience. This is true especially for one that grew up with a myriad of experiences from the ‘ambient sounds’ of the forest, various marine nooks, and the tropical dawns, sunlight, rain and drizzles with rainbows, humid restless afternoons, setting suns, refreshing smells of burnt shrubs of new gardens, eerie darkness and indelible associated noises and sounds of insects, plants, waves and winds. They are simply unforgettable. Little wonder that any slight disturbance caused to the abodes of insects, birds, fish, reptiles, animals and plants evokes much belly (heart) ache. These ineradicable memories include the early morning to late evening pig squeals, dog howls, incessant cicada and bird chirps, shrieks of babies, boys, girls, women and men heading to and returning from the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2021 Vol. 22, Nos. 2–3, pp. 232–234, https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1906549 The Value of Listening, and Really Listening … Iinus S. Digim’Rina I regret that my eyes are not adequate to notice and see everything around me, and that my brain hasn’t sufficient power to understand it all. (Nicholas Mikloucho- Maclay in Sentinella 1975, 103) Steven Feld’s Voices of the Rainforest (2019) has been, to...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2021 Vol. 22, Nos. 2–3, pp. 232–234, https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1906549 The Value of Listening, and Really Listening … Iinus S. Digim’Rina I regret that my eyes are not adequate to notice and see everything around me, and that my brain hasn’t sufficient power to understand it all. (Nicholas Mikloucho- Maclay in Sentinella 1975, 103) Steven Feld’s Voices of the Rainforest (2019) has been, to me, a refreshing manifes- tation of my childhood life experience. This is true especially for one that grew up with a myriad of experiences from the ‘ambient sounds’ of the forest, various marine nooks, and the tropical dawns, sunlight, rain and drizzles with rainbows, humid restless afternoons, setting suns, refreshing smells of burnt shrubs of new gardens, eerie darkness and indelible associated noises and sounds of insects, plants, waves and winds. They are simply unforgettable. Little wonder that any slight disturbance caused to the abodes of insects, birds, fish, reptiles, animals and plants evokes much belly (heart) ache. These ineradicable memories include the early morning to late evening pig squeals, dog howls, incessant cicada and bird chirps, shrieks of babies, boys, girls, women and men heading to and returning from the

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Published: May 27, 2021

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