Publications

Publication details [#4958]

Howe, James. 1977. Carrying the village: Cuna political metaphors. 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. 132–163.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor | political language | religious language

Language as a subject

Annotation

Metaphors are shown to play an important part in the political and religious meetings among the Cuna of San Blas, Panama.