A Musical View of the Universe
Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2017
368 pages
978-1-5128-1965-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Musical View of the Universe is a study of the relationships between spoken myth and musical ritual in a native Brazilian community, the Carib-speaking Kalpalo of the Upper Xingu Basin. The book focuses on the meanings created and expressed through performance of artistic processes in which sound symbols provide a unifying interpretive matrix. Through sound symbols, Kalpalo ideas about types of beings, their relationships, and activities of mind are conceived, represented, and rendered apparent.The book includes the first collection of South American Indian narratives translated directly from the original language from taped performances. Ellen B. Basso's translations take into account the interaction among participants in the storytelling situation and the qualities of narrative performance that result.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-1965-6 (9781512819656)
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04/1985
1st Edition
University of Pennsylvania Press
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BassoEllen B.:
Ellen B. Basso is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Ellen B. Basso is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Guide to Pronouncing Kalapalo Words
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Meaning Constructed Through Performance
- Chapter 2. Narrative Performances and Discourse Structures
- Chapter 3. Myth as an Explanatory Mode
- Chapter 4. Sound as Symbol: Orders of Animacy
- Chapter 5. The Government of Grief
- Chapter 6. Fantasies of Erotic Aggression
- Chapter 7. Saturated with Music, Submerged in Sense
- Appendix 1: Transcribing and Translating
- Appendix 2: Kwambi Songs (as sung by Kambe)
- Appendix 3: Songs Called "Birding" (itolotepe) (as sung by Kudyu, Ugaki, Tsarjaku)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Myths
