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Exchanging words : language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park
- Title
- Exchanging words : language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park / Christopher Ball.
- Author
- Ball, Christopher Gordon
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ; Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 274 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- School for Advanced Research resident scholar series
- Uniform Title
- School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
- Subject
- 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
- Intergroup relations
- Manners and customs
- Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) > Social life and customs
- Brazil > Parque Nacional do Xingu
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 251-264) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3810
- ISBN
- 9780826358530
- 0826358535
- LCCN
- 2017056955
- OCLC
- 1030445403
- Author
- Ball, Christopher Gordon, author.
- Title
- Exchanging words : language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park / Christopher Ball.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ; Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- School for Advanced Research resident scholar seriesSchool for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 251-264) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ball, Christopher Gordon. Exchanging words. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press/SAR Press, 2018 9780826358547 (DLC) 2018015915
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3810