Performing dreams
Subtitle: discourses of immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil
By: Laura R. Graham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Xavante Indians -- Folklore; Xavante Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Xavante mythology; Xavante language -- Discourse analysis; Dream interpretation -- Brazil -- Pimentel Barbosa Reserve; Discourse analysis, Narrative
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.