The Falling Sky
Title | The Falling Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Davi Kopenawa |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 649 |
Release | 2023-01-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674293576 |
The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation A New Scientist Best Book of the Year A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.” —Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review “The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.” —Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian “A literary treasure...a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.” —New Scientist A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples’ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.
Yanomami
Title | Yanomami PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Borofsky |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2005-01-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520244044 |
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.
Y̦anomamö, the Fierce People
Title | Y̦anomamö, the Fierce People PDF eBook |
Author | Napoleon A. Chagnon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Yanomamo Indians |
ISBN | 9780030710704 |
The Living Ancestors
Title | The Living Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Zeljko Jokic |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782388184 |
This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.
Yanomami
Title | Yanomami PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Schwartz |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1995-03-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
"The Yanomami, hunters and gatherers living in the depths of the Amazon rain forest, are one of many groups threatened by the invasion of foreigners. Through magnificent full-color photographs and an eloquent text, this book shows their way of life from points of view of Matuwe, a 10-year-old boy, and Hiyomi, a 6-year-old girl....Photo essays such as this may result in younger generations' awareness of the plight of these vanishing people."--School Library Journal.
Tales of the Yanomami
Title | Tales of the Yanomami PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Lizot |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 1991-05-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0521406722 |
After living fifteen years with the Yanomami, Lizot provides direct accounts of daily experience, shamanism, conflict and alliances.
The Yanomami of South America
Title | The Yanomami of South America PDF eBook |
Author | Raya Tahan |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780822548515 |
Describes the customs, housing, and food of the Yanomami; their daily routine; and what is being done to protect the rain forests they live in.