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 |
MINISTRY BUILDING 1980 | 56 |
SOUNDS OF TIME THE TIME OF SOUNDS | 85 |
SINGING DREAMS DREAMS OF SINGING | 103 |
EITHER A CLOCKWISE OR COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTION | 111 |
SOME PRITAI?WA NOVITIATES PERFORMING DANO?RE | 119 |
THE POLITICS OF NARRATIVE PERFORMANCE | 137 |
WARĀ SEATING ARRANGEMENTS AFTER THE 1985 | 148 |
BECOMING A CREATOR | 175 |
PERFORMING THE DREAM | 207 |
WARODI FITTING THE BURITI FIBER ROBE TO | 210 |
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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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0292727763, 9780292727762 |
| Length | 290 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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