Publications

Publication details [#64540]

High, Casey. 2018. Bodies that speak: Languages of differentiation and becoming in Amazonia. Language & Communication 63 : 65–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | culture | myth | ritual | speech

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

The affective qualities of language show the indivisibility of body and voice in Waorani comprehensions of becoming. Amazonian people act concurrently within opposing distinction regimes. Co-operative projects elucidate opposing ideas about the nature of language in Amazonian social dynamics.