Verbal Art in San Blas - Kuna Culture Through Its Discourse

Klappentext This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society. Zusammenfassung This book! by one of the leading scholars in linguistic anthropology! concerns the verbal art of the Kuna Indians of San Blas! Panama. Theirs is a world in which all knowledge and information! from history and geography to the latest sport news from Panama City! is orally conceived! perceived and transmitted and Joel Sherzer demonstrates how experience is shaped by these verbal discourses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1, Introduction; 2. The poetics of Kuna verbal art; 3. White Prophet: A Kuna myth chanted, spoken and translated; 4. Counselling a new chief: A fugue of metaphors; 5. The report of a curing specialist: The poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance; 6. The hot pepper story: Strategies in text and context; 7. The Agouti story: On play, joking, humour and tricking; 8. The grammar of poetry and the poetry of magic: How to grab a snake in the Darien; 9. Some final words; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Sherzer, Joel F. Sherzer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107112
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10711-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology