Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book
ISBN: 978-0-8263-5853-0
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
Throughout, the author analyzes language use in ritual settings to show how Wauja people construct relationships with powerful spirit-monsters, ancestors, and ethnic trading partners. Ball's use of ritual as an analytic category helps show how Wauja interactions with spirits and Indian neighbors, for example, are connected to interactions with the Brazilian government, international NGOs, and museums in projects of development. Showing ritual as a contributing factor to relationships of development and the politics of indigeneity, Exchanging Words asks how discourse, ritual, and exchange come together to mediate social relations close to home and on a global scale.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik