Book chapter
Fluid Subjectivity: Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top’tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader
Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America , pp.235-270
University of Nebraska Press
11/01/2014
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1d9nkk2.14
Abstract
Walking back from the river with a group of women and children one July afternoon in 1984 in the central Brazilian Xavante community of Eténhiritipa Pimentel Barbosa, I heard the mournful sound of a woman’s ceremonial keening. “E tiha?” I asked my companions, “What is it?” “Da-wawa, watsini hã te ti-nho’re ti’ra dzo.” (It’s keening. Our in-law is keening for her son.) I walked across the central plaza to the house from which the lament emanated, and a small group of children who had assembled to witness the excitement motioned me to go inside. There, sounded by her sisters and
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- Title: Subtitle
- Fluid Subjectivity: Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top’tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader
- Creators
- Laura R. Graham
- Contributors
- Suzanne Oakdale (Editor)Magnus Course (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America , pp.235-270
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctt1d9nkk2.14
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983997096802771
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