Notes on Xavante Orthography and Transcription -- 1. Introduction: Performing Dreams -- 2. Descendants of the First Creators -- 3. Sounds of Time, the Time of Sounds -- 4. Singing Dreams, Dreams of Singing -- 5. Depersonalizing the Dream: The Politics of Narrative Performance -- 6. Becoming a Creator -- 7. Performing the Dream -- Appendix: Musical Transcriptions
Summary
"Discourse-centered approach to Xavante culture focuses on the performance of songs, the telling of dreams, and the transmission of culture. Principal arguments are that the meaning of expressive practices is constructed through performance; that dreams may be seen as communicative and hence social processes; and that discursive practices are essential to the process of cultural transmission"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-283) and index
