Author: Helena ValeroPublisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Yanoáma
Author: Helena ValeroPublisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Brazil's Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization
Author: Linda RabbenPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295983620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Examines the relationship of the Kayapo and Yanomami, two indigenous groups of the Amazon region, to Brazilian society and the wider world. Revised and updated from an earlier edition, the book includes new chapters on the resurgence of indigenous groups previously thought extinct and the renewed controversy among anthropologists studying the Yanomami.
The Yanoama Indians
Author: William J. SmolePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477300368
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Yanoama are one of the most numerous remaining aboriginal populations of the South American tropical forests, and their large territory constitutes a significant culture region. Although other scholars (anthropologists, geneticists, linguists) have studied this contemporary "neolithic" population, this is the first geographic study of the Yanoama. It is also the only book to focus on the Yanoama highland core area—the Parima massif—and it is the first study to analyze Yanoama horticulture as an integral part of their ecosystem. The author is concerned principally with the spatial dimension as developed in Yanoama culture, with the spatial patterns of functioning systems, and with Yanoama ecology in this highland habitat. The natural environment is viewed, not as a cultural determinant, but as part of the total ecosystem. Livelihood activities constitute a major organizing theme and, among these, gardening receives the most attention. Frequently classified as a nomadic hunter-gatherer group, the Yanoama are found to have a deep-seated horticultural tradition, and many new data on this tradition are presented. As this study reveals, the Yanoama have created and maintained a cultural landscape that bears their distinctive stamp.
The Falling Sky
Author: Davi KopenawaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674292138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in this unique reading experience—a coming-of-age story, historical account, and shamanic philosophy, but most of all an impassioned plea to respect native rights and preserve the Amazon rainforest.
Tales of the Yanomami
Author: Jacques LizotPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521406722
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
After living fifteen years with the Yanomami, Lizot provides direct accounts of daily experience, shamanism, conflict and alliances.
Noble Savages
Author: Napoleon A. ChagnonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684855119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Biography.
Yanomami
Author: Rob BorofskyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244044
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy - one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios - as its starting point, this books considers how fieldwork is done, how professional credibility and integrity are maintained, and how the discipline might change to address central theoretical and methodological problems. Both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controve.
Claudia Andujar: the Yanomami Struggle
Author: Thyago NogueiraPublisher: Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
ISBN: 9782869251540
Category : First Nations of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is published to accompany Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the most ambitious exhibition ever devoted to the Brazilian photographer who since the 1970s has dedicated her life to photography and the protection of the Yanomami Indians, one of the largest Amerindian communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Conceived by Thyago Nogueira for the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil, Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle features over 200 black-and-white and color photographs, many of which have never been shown before, as well as an audiovisual installation, historical documents and drawings produced by Yanomami artists. The fruit of several years' research into the photographer's archives, the exhibition reflects the two inseparable aspects of her approach: one aesthetic, the other political. The exhibition also shows Claudia Andujar's significant contribution to photographic art and the essential role she has played and continues to play in the defense of Yanomami rights and the forest in which they live.
State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
Author: José Antonio KellyPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816529205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Amazonian indigenous peoples have preserved many aspects of their culture and cosmology while also developing complex relationships with dominant non-indigenous society. Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between “traditional” topics like kinship, cosmology, ritual, and myth, on the one hand, and the analysis of their struggles with the nation-state on the other. What has been lacking is work that bridges these two approaches and takes into consideration the meaning of relationships with the state from an indigenous perspective. That long-standing dichotomy is challenged in this new ethnography by anthropologist José Kelly. Kelly places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela. With theoretical foundations in the fields of medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly sheds light on how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. The result is a symmetrical anthropology that treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of each group and its influences on the other. This book will be valuable to those studying Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development studies, and Latin America. Its new takes on theory and methodology make it ideal for classroom use.
Darkness in El Dorado
Author: Patrick TierneyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322750
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
What "Guns, Germs, and Steel" did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journalists, self-serving anthropologists, and obsessed scientists placed the Yanomami, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, on the cusp of extinction. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of photos.