Exchanging Words - Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book
Release date:	October 2018
Authors:	Christopher Ball
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-5853-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	0-8263-5853-5
Barcode:	9780826358530

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!