Journal of Folklore Research

Volume 27, Nos. 1-2January-August 1990

Special Issue: Native Latin American Cultures Through Their Discourse

Preface / 1

Ellen B. Basso
Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore Research / 3

Janet Wall Hendricks
Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar / 11

Jane H. Hill
Weeping as a Meta-signal in a Mexicano Woman's Narrative / 29

Susan Paulson
Double-talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as a Means of Surviving Contact / 51

John H. McDowell
The Community-building Mission of a Kamsá Ritual Language / 67

Joel Sherzer
On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking in Kuna: The Agouti Story / 85

Jonathan D. Hill
Myth, Music, and History: Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian Society / 115

Ellen B. Basso
The Last Cannibal / 133

Contributors / 175

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