The line of dust
Subtitle: Bororo culture between tradition, mutation and self-representation
By: Massimo Canevacci
Edition: First English edition.
Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Canon Pyon [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781907774263
Subjects: Bororo Indians; Funeral customs and rites; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Religion; Bororo mythology
Work titles: Linea di polvere
Description: Massimo Canevacci draws on ethnographic fieldwork carried out together with Bororo of the Mato Grosso (Brazil), in particular Kleber Meritororeu, to examine the tensions, conflicts and exchanges between transformation and tradition. The practical as well as political keyword in his approach is self-representation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 220 -224) and index.

Text in English, translated from Italian.