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Publication details [#18053]
Graham, Laura R. 1995. Performing dreams: Discourses of immorality among the Xavante of central Brazil. University of Texas Press. xiv + 290 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Tracing the history of the Xavante of central Brazil, this book provides a dynamic view of cultural change in process through language use. The Xavante are pictured as dynamic actors in their own history, allotting a crucial role to rhetorical forms in the interpretation of their history.