CEREMONIELLE DIALOGISKE HILSNER BLANDT KUNA-INDIANERNE I PANAMA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i35-36.115323Resumé
Joel Sherzer: Ceremonial Dialogic
Greetings among the Kuna Indians of
Panama
The Kuna Indians of Panama are the most
northern group in Niels Fock’s comparative
survey of ceremonial dialogue in lowland
South America. Ceremonial dialogue is the
form in which chiefs perform myth, history,
and personal experience, in a chanted ritual
and metaphorical language, to the Kuna
community. Arkan kae, the ritual greeting
between two chiefs from separate villages, is
also performed in this way. The language of
arkan kae, like the language of Kuna
ceremonial dialogue more generally, is
ritual, metaphorical, and poetic. With regard
to content, arkan kae deals with the health of
the chiefs and their villages, their travels,
and their experiences. Arkan kae is the focus
of this report, which includes a representative
example. While not as ritually
elaborated or structured, the arkan kae
pattem of ceremonial dialogic greeting
emerges between two friends or family
members who have not seen one another for
a long time, as they report and narrate to one
another about their experiences during the
period when they were separated. It should
also be pointed out that the ceremonial
dialogic model for speech, widespread in
indigenous, oral societies in Latin America,
is gradually but sometimes brutally
becoming replaced with another model, with
which it has long been in competition and
conflict, the European derived, monologic
and literate model.
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