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Exchanging words : language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Christopher Gordon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : Santa Fe : University of New Mexico Press ; School for Advanced Research Press, 2018.
Series:School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
Subjects:
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.
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) > Social life and customs.
Table of 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.