| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series |
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School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors |
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"Like human groups everywhere, Wauja people construct their identity in relation to others. This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors. Tracing Wauja interactions with others, Ball depicts expanding scales of social action from the village to the wider field of the park and finally abroad. 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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2018) |
| Subject |
Waura Indians -- Brazil -- Parque Nacional do Xingu -- Language
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Waura Indians -- Brazil -- Parque Nacional do Xingu -- Rites and ceremonies
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Intergroup relations -- Brazil -- Parque Nacional do Xingu
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Intergroup relations
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Brazil -- Parque Nacional do Xingu
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018015915 |
| ISBN |
9780826358547 |
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0826358543 |
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