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A public sphere in Amazonia?article 1993 • Graham, Laura R.
Xavante • South America > Eastern South America
This article discusses language use in men's council meetings (warã), highlighting distinct features of Xavante discursive practices. Unlike Western societies in which the individual acts as an autonomous political agent, the locus of political activ...Dialogic dreamsarticle 1994 • Graham, Laura R.
Xavante • South America > Eastern South America
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 ea...