Native Latin American Cultures Through Their Discourse

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ISBN: 9781879407008 | 1879407000
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1992

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"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-AmosAuthors examine weeping, double-talk, community-building, music, myth, humor and play, and concepts of time and history in various native Latin American communities.

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Preface	p. 1
Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore Research	p. 3
Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar	p. 11
Weeping as a Meta-signal in a Mexicano Woman's Narrative	p. 29
Double-talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as a Means of Surviving Contact	p. 51
The Community-building Mission of a Kamsa Ritual Language	p. 67
On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking in Kuna: The Agouti Story	p. 85
Myth, Music, and History: Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian Society	p. 115
The Last Cannibal	p. 133
Contributors	p. 175
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