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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
Language as a subject
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.