Idea of a Person in Lowland South America
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Turner, Terence
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content: Terence Turner papers
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content: Terence Turner papers / Series 3: Papers, conferences, and courses / 3.2: Conferences and lectures
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content: 1978-1981
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content: Box 84, Folder 1
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Includes notes, papers for a symposium entitled "Self and Person in Lowland South America" at the AAAs, correspondence, and a syllabus for Turner's Anthropology 212 course (The Intensive Study of a Culture: The Kayapo). The papers include "Contribution to the concepts of person and self in Lowland South American Societies: Body Painting among the Kayapo-Xikrin" by Lux Vidal, "A 'Musical View of the Universe': Kalapalo Myth and Ritual as Religious Performance" by Ellen B. Basso, two drafts of "The Self and Kagwahiv Dream Beliefs" (and an abstract) by Waud Kracke, an untitled paper,  two drafts of "Ecological Aspects of Self/Other Differentiation among the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon" by Allen Johnson, "Bara Concepts of Self and Other" by Jean E. Jackson, "Language, Agency, and the 'Theory of Self' in Shokleng (Gê)" by Greg Urban, "A Pintura Corporal Entre Índios Brasileiros" by Lux Boelitz Vidal, "Levantamento Situacao Atual das Populacoes Indigenas no Brasil" by Carlos Alberto Ricardo, "Yukuna social solidarity and the notions of self and person" by Pierre-Yves Jacopin, "The Theory of Procreation and Culture of Identity of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil" by Thomas Gregor, "The Nucleus-Periphery Structure as a Rationale to the Genealogical Conception Theory of the Kamayurá Indians of Upper-Xingu (Central Brazil)" by Rafael José de Menezes Bastos, "Why We Need to Discuss Self and Person in Lowland South America: What This Symposium Is All about" by Anthony Seeger, and "The Dialectics of Person and Self in Cashinahua Society" by Kenneth M. Kensinger.