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Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society
University of Arizona Press, 1993 Cloth: 978-0-8165-1135-8 Library of Congress Classification F2270.2.C87H55 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 299.883
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro region in southern Venezuela employ a form of singing called malikai for ceremonies of childbirth, initiation, and healing. This ritual chanting is a rich amalgam of myth and music, and serves as a means of integrating individuals into a vertical hierarchy of power relations between mythic ancestors and human descendants. Jonathan Hill here shows how the musical and semantic transformations of everyday discourse in malikai integrate the everyday world into a poetic process of empowerment. See other books on: Discourse analysis | Hill, Jonathan D. | Keepers | Rites and ceremonies | Venezuela See other titles from University of Arizona Press |
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Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Arizona Press, 1993
Cloth: 978-0-8165-1135-8
Cloth: 978-0-8165-1135-8
The Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro region in southern Venezuela employ a form of singing called malikai for ceremonies of childbirth, initiation, and healing. This ritual chanting is a rich amalgam of myth and music, and serves as a means of integrating individuals into a vertical hierarchy of power relations between mythic ancestors and human descendants. Jonathan Hill here shows how the musical and semantic transformations of everyday discourse in malikai integrate the everyday world into a poetic process of empowerment.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
