James Slotta – The Conversation

Binoora Bhultse demonstrates the two-handed moyzé whistling technique used in the Oyda district of southwest Ethiopia. Azeb Amha

September 21, 2021

If you were called by a melody, how would it sound? Communities in Ethiopia and PNG name people with unique individual tunes

Hannah Sarvasy, Western Sydney University; Azeb Amha, Leiden University, and James Slotta, The University of Texas at Austin

Name tunes are unknown in most of the world, but they are found in two very distant communities.