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Publication details [#34314]

Mixco, Mauricio J. 1992. The Role of Metaphor in Kiliwa Kinship and Religion. Anthropological Linguistics 34 (1-4) : 138–158.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

kinship | metaphor | religion

Language as a subject

Kiliwa

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper sets out to illuminate the linguistic and cultural role of a ritual Kiliwa object, a wooden idol known as ñipumjósas, and the metaphors it embodies.