Native Latin American Cultures Through Their Discourse

ELLEN B. BASSO is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her published work includes A Musical View of the University: Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances.

• PrefaceEllen B. BassoIntroduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore ResearchJanet Wall HendricksManipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the ShuarJane H. Hill Weeping as a Meta-signal in a Mexicano Womans NarrativeSusan PaulsonDouble-talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as a Means of Surviving ContactJohn H. McDowellThe Community-building Mission of a Kamsa Ritual LanguageJoel Sherzer On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking in Kuna:The Agouti StoryJonathan D. HillMyth, Music, and History: Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian SocietyEllen B. BassoThe Last CannibalContributors

"These essays, most of them in the tradition of anthropological study of folklore, expand the current boundaries of the discipline and provide additional case studies to a growing literature in discourse analysis of oral performance."- Dan Ben-Amos