The last cannibals : a South American oral history

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The last cannibals : a South American oral history

Ellen B. Basso

University of Texas Press, 1995

1st ed

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314) and indexes

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ISBN 9780292708181

内容説明

The Kalapalo are a Carib-speaking group of Brazilian Indians who live in the Alto (Upper) Xingu region around the headwaters of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. In this major discourse-centered study of their culture, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge and the performance of historical narratives within their nonliterate society. The stories focus on the biographies of exceptionally powerful warrior bowmen. Basso uses these stories to explore how the Kalapalo remember and understand their history and what specific linguistic, psychological, and ideological materials they employ to construct their narratives. This inquiry represents the first comprehensive study of Amazonian Indian ethnohistory using indigenous oral documents and the first attempt to understand, though indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingu society. It will be important reading in anthropology, linguistics, and South American studies.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780292708198

内容説明

An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingu society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge and the performance of historical narratives within their nonliterate society. This engaging book challenges the familiar view of biography as a strictly Western literary form. Of special interest are biographies of powerful warriors whose actions led to the emergence of a more recent social order based on restrained behaviors from an earlier time when people were said to be fierce and violent. From these stories, Basso explores how the Kalapalo remember and understand their past and what specific linguistic, psychological, and ideological materials they employ to construct their historical consciousness. Her book will be important reading in anthropology, folklore, linguistics, and South American studies.

目次

Preface A Guide to Pronouncing Kalapalo Words Part 1 1. Introduction 2. The Language in Storytelling 3. An Early Experience of Europeans Told by Muluku 4. Kambe's Testimony Part 2 5. Warriors 6. Ahpiu's Story about Wapagepundaka 7. Madyuta's Story about Tapoge 8. Kudyu's Story about Tamakafi Part 3 9. Kudyu's Story of the Wanderers 10. Ausuki Tells of the Trumai People 11. Ugaki Tells of Afuseti, a Woman Stolen by Angikogo 12. Tsangaku Tells of the Dyaguma Part 4 13. Conclusion: History, Ideology, and the Personal Version of Reality Notes References Index Of Stories General Index

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