The Always Living: Discourse and the Male Lifecycle of the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil |
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Chapter I | 1 |
Chapter II | 28 |
Persistence and Change in Xavante Society | 46 |
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a?āma a?uwe a?uwi aba mono active clauses agamous moiety age grade age-set āhā ai?rere āma ancestors apö babaçu Barra do Garças Brasília Brazilian buriti ceremonial clitic continue created culture da-dzarōno da-hipopo da-ñimi-romhuri da-ño?re performance da-praba dance Daru discourse practice distinct dream narrative durɛ dza?ra dzarina dzɛ elders example exogamous exogamous moiety expressive faction formal forms FUNAI Gê languages Goiânia höimana?u?ö honorific identity immortals incomprehensible individual intransitive verbs Kuluene language lifecycle lines linguistic Lino living markers mature men's Maybury-Lewis men's council reunions moiety myth myth-telling niha ño?re paint participants pattern person marking petse Pimentel Barbosa postposition pronouns ritai?wa sentence Sibupa singing social solidarity song speaker speaking speech stative clauses stipa taha tahata telling tete third person traditional transitive tsada?ro tsimñohu u?ötsi uiwede utterances village voice wa?a wa?aba wai?a waihu?u wamari wapt Warodi women Xavante language Xavante society Xavante's Xerente Xokleng