To drink of death
Subtitle: the narrative of a Shuar warrior
By: Janet Wall Hendricks.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Tukup'.; Shuar Indians -- Biography.; Shuar language -- Texts.; Shuar language -- Discourse analysis.
Description: "Discourse-centered approach to Shuar life history presents an autobiography of a Shuar warrior, and provides a discussion of Shuar speech events and their linguistic, cultural, and situational contexts. Given the paucity of anthropological studies of individual life narratives in lowland South America, work is an important contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-309) and index.