Research Catalog

Title

• Por que cantam os Kisêdjê : uma antropologia musical de um povo amazônico / Anthony Seeger ; tradução, Guilherme Werlang.

Author

Seeger, Anthony

Publication

São Paulo : Cosac Naify, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Associação Indígena Kĩsêdjê production company.
• Kisêdjê, Kamikia
• Suya, Kambrinti,
• Suya, Kokoyamãratxi,
• Suya, Winti
• Video nas Aldeias (Project) production company.
• Werlang, Guilherme
• Yaiku, 1980-

Description

xxi, 159 pages : illustrations; 26 cm +

Summary

Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya (or Kisêdjê) Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. Anthony Seeger considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Kisêdjê -- and by extension for other groups -- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony.

Uniform Title

• Amtô: a festa do rato (Motion picture)
• Festa do rato, Janeiro 1996 (Motion picture)
• Why Suyá sing. Portuguese

Alternative Title

• Amtô: mouse ceremony.
• Mouse ceremony, January 1996.
• Why Suyá sing.

Subject

• Folk music > Brazil
• Indians of South America > Brazil > Social life and customs
• Indians of South America > Mato Grosso (State)
• Indians of South America > Rites and ceremonies
• Suya Indians > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Documentary films
• Ethnographic films
• Instructional and educational works
• Nonfiction films
• Short films

Note

• Accompanied by DVD: first film in Suya with optional Portuguese or English subtitles; second film in Suya with optional Portuguese or English title screens; the examples have both English and Portuguese intertitles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

DVD: Amtô: a festa do rato = Amtô: mouse ceremony / Associação Indígena Kisêdjê, Vídeo nas Aldeias apresentem ; direçao e imagens: Yaiku, Kambrinti, Kamikia, Kokoyamãratxi, Winti. (2011 ; 34 min.) -- Festa do rato, Janeiro 1996 = The mouse ceremony, January 1996 / Associação Indígena Kisêdjê ; videographer, Anthony Seeger (2006 ; 38 min.) -- 22 examples cited in the book.

ISBN

• 9788540507616
• 8540507617

OCLC

1243885407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library