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Interpretations of inter-cultural contactarticle 1985 • Urban, Greg
Xokleng • South America > Eastern South America
During the period of 1914-1916, the Shokleng (Xokleng) Indians of Southern Brazil, who were previously both economically and politically independent, were brought under the protection of the Brazilian state by a process known as "pacification." In th...The represented functions of speech in Shokleng mytharticle 1993 • Urban, Greg & Lucy, John Arthur
Xokleng • South America > Eastern South America
This document is basically a study in theoretical linguistics in which the author analyzes the functions of speech as represented in Shokling (Xokleng) myths. The first one of these functions is the "meaning bearing" or "signaling" function in which ...The semiotics of tabooed foodarticle 1981 • Urban, Greg et al.
Xokleng • South America > Eastern South America
In contrast to the hypothesis suggested by Eric B. Ross that societal food taboos are ecological based and can be analyzed within the framework of an ecosystem; Urban contends that while the ecosystem approach has its own analytic value, these taboos...