Publications

Publication details [#2433]

Crocker, J. Christopher. 1977. My brother the parrot. In Sapir, J. David and J. Christopher Crocker, eds. The social use of metaphor: Essays on the anthropology of rhetoric. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 164–192.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor

Language as a subject

Bororo

Annotation

C. investigates the social nature of cosmological metaphor through an extended discussion of a single ethnographic case (i.e. the problem as to just what the Bororo of Central Brazil mean when they say 'We are red macaws').