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Dialogic dreams: creative selves coming into life in the flow of time
American ethnologist • 21 (4) • Published In 1994 • Pages: 723-745
By: Graham, Laura R..
Abstract
This article illuminates the ways Xavante youth creatively use songs to reconfigure social relations. As part of their culturally-ordained development cycle, young males compose songs received from deceased ancestors in dreams. The dreamed song of each youth is then jointly performed and owned by members of his age-set. In the course of sharing the varied meanings and types of dreamed songs, age-set members reinforce group cohesion, while also accommodating variation in the personalities of individual members.
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Eastern South America
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2015
- Field Date
- 1981-1987
- Coverage Date
- 1981-1987
- Coverage Place
- Pimentel Barbosa, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Notes
- Laura R. Graham
- Includes bibliographical references (p.742-745)
- LCCN
- 74644326
- LCSH
- Xavante Indians