Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible and audible. Lacking privacy, the Mehinaku have become masters of stagecraft and impression management, enthusiastically publicizing their good citizenship while ingeniously covering up such embarrassments as extramarital affairs and theft.
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The role concept in social science is based on the perception that life is like theater. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trash yard men, urucu pigment, trash yard man, adolescent seclusion, seclusion barrier, residence mates, seclusion partitions, ceremonial ambassadors, dry season village, intertribal ritual, pequi fruit, manioc porridge, painful foods, true kinsmen, trash yards, shell belts, manioc bread, sacred flutes, ordinary possessions, thatch wall, dramaturgical metaphor, low observability, dramaturgical perspective, manioc flour, affinal relatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian Post, Deer Spirit, Xingu Indians, Rotten Fish, Tuatuari River, Erving Goffman, South American, Sao Paulo, Women's Sons, The Staging of Social Relationships New!
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The role concept in social science is based on the perception that life is like theater. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trash yard men, urucu pigment, trash yard man, adolescent seclusion, seclusion barrier, residence mates, seclusion partitions, ceremonial ambassadors, dry season village, intertribal ritual, pequi fruit, manioc porridge, painful foods, true kinsmen, trash yards, shell belts, manioc bread, sacred flutes, ordinary possessions, thatch wall, dramaturgical metaphor, low observability, dramaturgical perspective, manioc flour, affinal relatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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