[PDF.98ge] Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil

Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil

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 | #8281735 in Books |  1998-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .82 x6.14 x9.01l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The power of Song|By K. David Harrison|"Performing Dreams" is a beautifully written and moving first-hand account of how the Xavante are sustaining their traditional cultures and finding ways to resist, co-opt and accommodate modernity through everyday talk, song, ritual and other practices. Students of folk music will be fascinated to witness the pervasive power of song in sha| |... of great interest to students of South American folklore, ethnology, and linguistics ... religious studies scholars and psychologists. Recommended. --Choice

Graham ... argues persuasively for the importance of cultural identity to surviva

Over several centuries, the Xavante of Central Brazil have maintained an invincible sense of identity and feeling of control over historical processes, despite repeated invasions by colonists and settlers, capitalist commercial ventures, and most recently, an enormous government-sponsored agricultural project. In this discourse-centered study, Laura Graham explores how the Xavante use the ritual performance of myths and dreams to maintain their culture despite these disr...

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