(1st) Green cloth, gilt lettering bright on spine, 245 lightly browned pages plus brief biographical note. A study of the Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro in the Amazon Basin. DJ beneath mylar with beautiful pattern to front, books of related interest on back. UAP stamped at pages' bottom edge. DJ and book, both As New.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Keepers of the Sacred Chants : The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society

Publisher

University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

0816511357

ISBN 13

9780816511358

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

As New

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Native American

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Synopsis

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 the Author

Jonathan Hill is associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University.

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