Native Latin American Cultures Through Their Discourse

Preface
Ellen B. Basso
Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore Research
Janet Wall Hendricks
Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar
Jane H. Hill
Weeping as a Meta-signal in a Mexicano Womans Narrative
Susan Paulson
Double-talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as a Means of Surviving Contact
John H. McDowell
The Community-building Mission of a Kamsa Ritual Language
Joel Sherzer
On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking in Kuna:
The Agouti Story
Jonathan D. Hill
Myth, Music, and History: Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian Society
Ellen B. Basso
The Last Cannibal
Contributors