Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective Book

	Preface	ix
1.	For a Kuna Ethnography of Speaking	3
	The Kuna	3
	Language and Speech in Cross-Cultural Perspective	8
	The Ethnography of Speaking	11
	Related Perspectives	14
	Theoretical Issues	18
2.	Language and Speech in Kuna Society	21
	Kuna Linguistic Varieties and Other Languages	21
	From Vocabulary to Metaphor	25
	Grammatical Structure	36
	Language and Society	56
	The Idyllic and the Conflictual	65
3.	The 'Gathering House': Public and Political 'Gatherings'	72
	Men's and Women's 'Gatherings': Chanting	73
	The Typology of Chanting	76
	The Purpose of Chanting	89
	Visiting 'Chiefs'	91
	Interisland Ritual 'Gatherings'	95
	When 'Chiefs' Speak	98
	Men's 'Gatherings': Village Affairs, Reports, and Relaxation	99
	The 'Gathering House' as Informal Meeting Place	107
	The 'Gathering House' as Verbal Nerve Center	108
4.	Curing and Magic: Counseling the Spirits	110
	Curing Events	111
	The Typology of Ikarkana	112
	Contexts for the Performance of Ikarkana	118
	Ikar Structure and Content	120
	What Makes Curing and Magic Work	133
	Variation and Adaptation	134
5.	Puberty Rites and Festivities	139
	Puberty Events	139
	The Structure and Content of 'The Way of the Kantule'	144
	Official and Unofficial Activities	147
	Tradition and Variation	151
6.	Everyday Speech: From Morning to Night, from Birth to Death	154
	A Focus on Setting: Times and Places for Talking	155
	A Focus on Discourse: Speech Acts, Events, and Situations	158
7.	From Everyday to Ritual: Configurations and Intersections	185
	Patterns of Speaking	186
	Intersections and Interpenetrations of Ways of Speaking	213
8.	Continuity and Change	223
	Learning and Teaching	223
	Tradition, Change, Conflict, and Adaptation	229
	Guide to Pronunciation	235
	Notes	237
	References	251
	Index	261