The Last Cannibals: A South American Oral History
Autor Ellen B. Bassoen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1995
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292708198
ISBN-10: 029270819X
Pagini: 335
Ilustrații: 12 b&w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 029270819X
Pagini: 335
Ilustrații: 12 b&w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Ellen B. Basso is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Cuprins
- 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
Recenzii
Basso artfully integrates consideration of discourse, psychology, and biography as she takes up the theme of historical memory, specifically how historical events and persons are represented through narrative and how meaning is given to choices made in the past. . . . Basso elegantly demonstrates how Kalapalo narrators represent these issues in ways that captivate their listeners.
Descriere
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 Xingú society.