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Publication details [#25169]

McDowell, John Holmes. 1989. Sayings of the ancestors: The spiritual life of the Sibundoy Indians. University Press of Kentucky. x + 206 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

belief | conceptualization | pragmatics | speech act

Language as a subject

Quechua

Annotation

This volume presents and analyzes a corpus of belief statements used by the Quechuan-speaking Inganos and Kamsá in the Sibundoy Valley of southern Colombia. The focus is on the place of the statements within a conceptual and pragmatic system.

Reviewed by

Briggs, Charles L. 1991. Review of J.H.McDowell (1989: `Sayings of the ancestors: The spiritual life of the Sibundoy Indians').