Native Latin American Cultures Through Their

"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.

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.

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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