Sherzer Joel, Urban Greg (eds.) Native South American Discourse

De Gruyter Mouton, 1986. — 346 p.AudioNative South American Discourse is the outgrowth of a conference held at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas in March of 1984. All of the papers in the volume have been extensively rewritten on the basis of discussions held at the conference and subsequent to it. The editors and authors are grateful to all of those who participated in the conference. We would especially like to thank Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort for her perspicacious comments regarding the written representation of Native American texts. The conference was funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the University of Texas College of Liberal Arts. We would like to express our appreciation to William Glade, Director of the Institute, to Robert D. King, Dean of the College, and to William Livingston, Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School. Thanks also to the Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago for their support during the preparation of this book.Since all of the participants at the conference felt that tape recordings of actual discourse are essential to our analysis, a cassette tape has been included with this volume. The tape contains sample portions of the texts which are represented and analyzed in the papers. We are grateful to Anthony Seeger and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University for their help in producing this tape.