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Birds as Messengers
Luisa Cadena, ”Oropendola Calls Cause Love and Sorrow." Youtube video. 6:50. April 16, 2019. https://youtu.be/0XkBl-56vqo No Subtitles.
Luisa Cadena, "Oropendola Calls Change Anger to Love" Youtube video. 5:10. April 16, 2019. https://youtu.be/pAyuQOJGStQ No subtitles
Luisa Cadena, "Oropendola Calls Change Anger to Love" Youtube video. 5:10. April 16, 2019. https://youtu.be/pAyuQOJGStQ No subtitles
Eulodia Dagua and Pedro Andi, "A Bird that Cries When People Die.” Youtube video. 7:10. February 3, 2015. https://youtu.be/hOxp4rgJZiA
Bélgica Dagua, "Hummingbird Calls Give Joy and Warn of Danger.” Youtube video. 0:29. October 2, 2015. https://youtu.be/K8esX7GETCY English subtitles.
Eulodia Dagua, "Widowed Toucans Sing Love Songs." Youtube video. 4:26. December 9, 2016. https://youtu.be/_lrLznnM6gI English text of the interview
Men and women use toucans to carry their love songs anonymously over distance. The reason they use toucans is that toucans always travel in pairs. When one of them is shot its mate, whether male or female, perches in the top of a tall tree and sings plaintively until a new mate arrives. By the end of the day it has its new lover. This is why toucan songs are particularly effective as love songs.
Pedro Andi, "Squirrel Cuckoo: A Bird That Lies and Sometimes Tells the Truth.” English subtitles only. Youtube video. 2:40. February 9, 2016. https://youtu.be/rBWtgWwJLNg
Delicia Dagua, "Bitirusa: a Trogan Love Song” Youtube video. 1:53. December 14, 2016. https://youtu.be/Vc5k3h1I2Ak.
Else Lagrou, Cashinahua Poetics: Metaphors of Sociality and Personhood in ritual song