Ellen B Basso

Native Latin American Cultures Through Their Discourse

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Produktbeschreibung

"These essays, most of them in the tradition of anthropological study of folklore, expand the current boundaries of the discipline and provide additional case studies to a growing literature in discourse analysis of oral performance." -Dan Ben-Amos Authors examine weeping, double-talk, community-building, music, myth, humor and play, and concepts of time and history in various native Latin American communities.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781879407008
• ISBN-10: 1879407000
• Artikelnr.: 39616678

Autorenporträt

ELLEN B. BASSO is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her published work includes A Musical View of the University: Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Ellen B. Basso
Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and
Folklore Research
Janet Wall Hendricks
Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar
Jane H. Hill
Weeping as a Meta-signal in a Mexicano Womans Narrative
Susan Paulson
Double-talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as a Means of Surviving
Contact
John H. McDowell
The Community-building Mission of a Kamsa Ritual Language
Joel Sherzer
On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking in Kuna:
The Agouti Story
Jonathan D. Hill
Myth, Music, and History: Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in
an Amazonian Society
Ellen B. Basso
The Last Cannibal
Contributors