Exchanging words : language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park /

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This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ball, Christopher Gordon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Colección:School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
Temas:
Waura Indians > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Language.
Waura Indians > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Rites and ceremonies.
Intergroup relations > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
Waura > Brésil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Langage.
Waura > Brésil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Rites et cérémonies.
Relations intergroupes > Brésil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Intergroup relations.
Manners and customs.
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brésil) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chief's speech : Wauja ancestors, political authority, and belonging
  • Bringing spirits : ritual curing and Wauja relations with spirits
  • Kuri sings : intergroup rivalry and alter-centricity
  • Inalienability : possession and exchange in intergroup relations
  • Interdiscursive rivers : protesting the Paranatinga II Dam
  • Pragmatics of development : asymmetries in interethnic exchange
  • Taking spirits to France : Wauja identity on a world stage
  • Conclusion : what we owe.

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