Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central BrazilReview: "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/ |
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PERFORMING DREAMS | 1 |
AREA OF XAVANTE RESERVES | 2 |
DESCENDANTS OF THE FIRST CREATORS | 17 |
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according acoustic age grade age-set Agostim Ai?rere ancestors Apöwe Areões babaçu bachelors Barra do Garças began behavior Brasília Brazilian central plaza ceremonial continue created creation da-ño?re performance dance David Maybury-Lewis descendants discourse discursive practices discussion dream narrative dream performance dreamed songs elders Etepa example experience expressive faction forever Xavante formal FUNAI gathered Goiânia höimana?u?ö hötörã immortal creators in-laws indigenous individual initiation jabiru Kuluene linguistic listen living Lopes da Silva male Marcos Matinha Maybury-Lewis men's council moiety move myth telling novitiates participants pattern phrases Pimentel Barbosa political pre-initiate ranchers relationship represent rice Rio das Mortes Riridu São Marcos São Paulo senior sharing Sibupa singing social society song Sõrupredu sound speak speaker sponsors Suptɔ Suyá tape recorder tion tsada?ro utterances vante village voices wadzapari?wa wapte waptɛ warã Warodi Warodi's dream women Xavante communities Xavante leaders Xavante's Xerente Xokleng young youths