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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Christopher Gordon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Manners and customs.
Intergroup relations.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Relations intergroupes > Bresil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
Waura (Indiens) > Bresil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Rites et ceremonies.
Waura (Indiens) > Bresil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Langage.
Intergroup relations > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
Waura Indians > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Rites and ceremonies.
Waura Indians > Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu > Language.
Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu.
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Bresil) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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