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Native South American discourse

Title: Native South American discourse / edited by Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban.
Publication: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©1986.

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viii, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
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Note

"Outgrowth of a conference held at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas in March of 1984"--Pref.
Sound cassette in container (24 cm.).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order in Hixkaryana / Desmond C. Derbyshire -- Decline of dialogue : ceremonial and mythological discourse among the Shuar and Achuar of eastern Ecuador / Maurizio Gnerre.

ISBN

0899250602
9780899250601
311010511X
9783110105117

LCCN

86012488

OCLC

ocm13642473
13642473
SCSB-1186249

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library