Kuna ways of speaking : an ethnographic perspective / by Joel Sherzer
1983, 1st edition. Austin : University of Texas Press. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425455
ISBN: 029274305X
Physical description; xii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260). Contents; For a Kuna Ethnography of Speaking -- The Kuna -- Language and Speech in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- The Ethnography of Speaking -- Related Perspectives -- Theoretical Issues -- Language and Speech in Kuna Society -- Kuna Linguistic Varieties and Other Languages -- From Vocabulary to Metaphor -- Grammatical Structure -- Language and Society -- The Idyllic and the Conflictual -- The 'Gathering House': Public and Political 'Gatherings' -- Men's and Women's 'Gatherings': Chanting -- The Typology of Chanting -- The Purpose of Chanting -- Visiting 'Chiefs' -- Interisland Ritual 'Gatherings' -- When 'Chiefs' Speak -- Men's 'Gatherings': Village Affairs, Reports, and Relaxation -- The 'Gathering House' as Informal Meeting Place -- The 'Gathering House' as Verbal Nerve Center -- Curing and Magic: Counseling the Spirits -- Curing Events -- The Typology of Ikarkana -- Contexts for the Performance of Ikarkana -- Ikar Structure and Content -- What Makes Curing and Magic Work -- Variation and Adaptation -- Puberty Rites and Festivities -- Puberty Events -- The Structure and Content of 'The Way of the Kantule' -- Official and Unofficial Activities -- Tradition and Variation -- Everyday Speech: From Morning to Night, from Birth to Death -- A Focus on Setting: Times and Places for Talking -- A Focus on Discourse: Speech Acts, Events, and Situations -- From Everyday to Ritual: Configurations and Intersections -- Patterns of Speaking -- Intersections and Interpenetrations of Ways of Speaking -- Continuity and Change -- Learning and Teaching. Subjects; Cuna language Social aspects. Cuna language Variation. Anthropological linguistics. Cuna Indians Social life and customs. Indians of Central America Panama Social life and customs.
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