“A sophisticated and interesting, discourse-centered approach to culture that can serve as a model for integrating linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, this collection demonstrates how much cultural variability exists within and among the various indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon region.”—Jonathan Hill, author of <i>Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History in an Amazonian Community</i><br /><br /><br />
“Books like this are a feast for linguists and anthropologists alike, and are all too rare. . . . The storytelling alone provides a unique insight into a world that will be unfamiliar to most English speakers. . . . Its integrated approach to culture and language . . . gives the reader a true appreciation of the mental universe inhabited by these speakers of a threatened, but defiant, language of Peru.”—Christopher Moseley, <i>Ogmios</i>, newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages
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Biographical note
Elena Mihas is a postdoctoral associate in anthropological linguistics at James Cook University in Australia.