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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnopsychology
- Music
- Dance
- Organized ceremonial
- Social personality
- Techniques of socialization
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Sodalities
- Age stratification
- Incorporeal property
- Semantics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Xavante
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981-1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1981-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pimentel Barbosa, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura R. Graham
- Includes bibliographical references (p.742-745)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Xavante Indians