Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil

Politics & Social Sciences

Graham, Laura R.

Social Sciences

Univ of Texas Pr

"Discourse-centered approach to Xavante culture focuses on the performance of songs, the telling of dreams, and the transmission of culture. Principal arguments are that the meaning of expressive practices is constructed through performance; that dreams may be seen as communicative and hence social processes; and that discursive practices are essential to the process of cultural transmission"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Anthropology

University of Texas Press

Graham's welcome study underscores the powerful and often-neglected potential of myths and myth-telling for the creation of cultural identity and social memory of among tribal peoples.... -- Choice

History

Americas

Wheatmark, Inc.

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