Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil"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 m |
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Contents
PERFORMING DREAMS | 1 |
DESCENDANTS OF THE FIRST CREATORS | 19 |
XAVANTE LEADER CELESTINO EN ROUTE TO A FEDERAL | 56 |
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| Title | Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil |
| Author | Laura R. Graham |
| Contributor | University of Texas |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press, 1995 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jun 11, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0292727763, 9780292727762 |
| Length | 290 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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