Xingu
Xingu

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1939-10

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780822212812

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THE STORY: A group of club-women try to entertain a high-hat woman novelist. Everything goes wrong, and the poor women are in despair trying to make conversation. One member, to show up the bluffs of the novelist and her own fellow-members, starts everyone talking about Xingu. No one knows what this is, but no one will admit it. During the squabble the novelist slips away with the woman who mentioned it-or him-and the others are forced to ask the maid, who knows of course that Xingu is a river!

Xingu
Xingu

Author: Xingu

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Xingu is a humourous short story by Edith Wharton, about a group of six women who meet together at a lunch club hosted by Mrs Ballinger. At this meeting, they have invited an author of one of the books they have supposed to have read, but find they can't really discuss it, as they meet more to socialise than to discuss books. Wharton captures perfectly the need of the characters to outdo each other, with the point seemingly to be as pretentious as possible.

Anxious Pleasures
Anxious Pleasures

Author: Thomas Gregor

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1987-01-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780226307435

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Annotation "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals--especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies--the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. "If we look carefully," writes Gregor, "we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities.

Xingu
Xingu

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 8728127234

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‘Xingu’ lampoons the leisurely lives of six ladies who lunch. Having formed a literary club, the six pseudo-intellectuals are thrown into panic at the prospect of being visited by a famous author. With sparkling dialogue and some wry observations about the lives of the upper classes, ‘Xingu’ is a biting satire on women’s place in the society of the time. A superb read, with an unexpected and riotous denouement. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.

Why Suyá Sing
Why Suyá Sing

Author: Anthony Seeger

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780252072024

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"Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony." "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers." -- Prové de l'editor.

The Anthropology of War
The Anthropology of War

Author: Jonathan Haas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-07-12

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780521380423

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The book brings together a group of authors who are addressing the nature and causes of warfare in simpler, tribal societies. The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans engage in warfare, why wars start, and the role of war in human evolution. Warfare in cultures from several different world areas is considered, ranging over the Amazon, the Caribbean, the Andes, the Southwestern United States, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, and Malaysia. To explain the origins and maintenance of war in tribal societies, different authors appeal to a broad spectrum of demographic, environmental, historical and biological variables. Competing explanatory models of warfare are presented head to head, with overlapping bodies of data offered in support of each.

I Foresee My Life
I Foresee My Life

Author: Suzanne Oakdale

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 080323578X

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"As they narrate their lives in these rituals, leaders also give other participants ways to address some of the pressing issues in their own lives. Special emphasis is given to the emotional effects of narrative performances and how these accounts move people to identify with others, compel them to act in appropriate ways, or assuage their grief over a lost loved one. Oakdale analyzes autobiographical performances using insights from studies on ritual, life history, and linguistic anthropology to better understand Kayabi notions of self and person and the role these narrative expressions play in their social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Xingu
Xingu

Author: Violette Viertel

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Little boy of the South American jungle in the valley of the Amazon wants to be a hunter but after some adventures with the strange animals of the wild he no longer wants to shoot them for they are his friends.

Companion to Literature
Companion to Literature

Author: Abby H. P. Werlock

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 859

ISBN-13: 143812743X

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