Performing beliefs : indigenous peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico

Prologue Acknowledgments Native Peoples: Introductory Panorama (Carol E. Robertson) Myth, Cosmology, and Performance (Carol E. Robertson) Metamorphosis: Mythic and Musical Modes of Ceremonial Exchange among the Wakuenai of Venezuela (Jonathan D. Hill) Brazil's Indigenous Universe (to ca. 1990): The Xavante, Kamayura, and Suya (Elizabeth Travassos) The Yawari Ritual of the Kamayura: A Xinguano Epic (Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos) Music and Worldview of Indian Societies in the Bolivian Andes (Max Peter Baumann) Local Practices among the Aymara and Kechua in Conima and Canas, Southern Peru (Thomas Turino) Amerindian Music of Chile (Maria Ester Grebe) Musical Culture of Indigenous Societies in Argentina (Irma Ruiz) Fertility Ritual (Carol E. Robertson) Music and Healing (Carol E. Robertson) The Fundamental Role of Music in the Life of Two Central American Ethnic Nations: The Miskito in Honduras and Nicaragua, and the Kuna in Panama (Ronny Velasquez) Mexico's Indigenous Universe (Marina Alonso Bolanos) Musical Traditions of the P'urhepecha (Tarascos) of Michoacan, Mexico (E. Fernando Nava Lopez) Aerophones of Traditional Use in South America, with References to Central America and Mexico (Dale A. Olsen) Epilogue (Carol E. Robertson) Index Contributors Recorded Examples