Keepers of the Sacred Chants

The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society

Jonathan D. Hill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

245 Seiten

1993
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-1135-8 (ISBN)

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The Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro region in southern Venezuela employ a form of singing called malikai for ceremonies of childbirth, initiation, and healing. In this volume, Jonathan Hill shows how the musical and semantic transformations of everyday discourse in malikai integrate the everyday world into a poetic process of empowerment.

The Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro region in southern Venezuela employ a form of singing called malikai for ceremonies of childbirth, initiation, and healing. This ritual chanting is a rich amalgam of myth and music, and serves as a means of integrating individuals into a vertical hierarchy of power relations between mythic ancestors and human descendants. Jonathan Hill here shows how the musical and semantic transformations of everyday discourse in malikai integrate the everyday world into a poetic process of empowerment.

Verlagsort	Tucson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Kunst / Musik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8165-1135-7 / 0816511357
ISBN-13	978-0-8165-1135-8 / 9780816511358
Zustand	Neuware