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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 book draws readers into not only reflecting on but refashioning the very heart and soul of the discipline. It is both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controversy available and an innovative and searching assessment of the current state of anthropology.
The Yanomami controversy came to public attention through the publication of Patrick Tierney's best-selling book, Darkness in El Dorado, in which he accuses James Neel, a prominent geneticist who belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as Napoleon Chagnon, whose introductory text on the Yanomami is perhaps the best-selling anthropological monograph of all time, of serious human rights violations. This book identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and raises deeper, structural questions about the discipline. A portion of the book is devoted to a unique roundtable in which important scholars on different sides of the issues debate back and forth with each other. This format draws readers into deciding, for themselves, where they stand on the controversy's--and many of anthropology's--central concerns..
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The Yanomami and Kayapó, two indigenous groups of the Amazon rainforest, have become internationally known through their dramatic and highly publicized encounters with "civilization." Both groups struggle to transcend internal divisions, preserve their traditional culture, and defend their land from depredation, while seeking to benefit from the outside world, yet their prospects for the future seem very different. Placing each group in its historical context, Linda Rabben examines the relationship of the Kayapó and Yanomami to Brazilian society and the wider world. She combines academic research with a wide variety of sources, including celebrated leaders Paulinho Payakan and Davi Kopenawa, to assess how each group has responded to outside incursions.

This book is a substantially revised edition of Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapó, and the Onslaught of Civilization, originally published in 1998, and includes a new chapter examining the controversy for anthropologists studying the Yanomami following the publication of Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado. Another new chapter focuses on the resurgence of Northeastern indigenous groups previously thought extinct. The magnitude and significance of indigenous movements has increased greatly, and a new generation of Brazilian indigenous leaders, proficient in Portuguese, is participating in the national political arena..
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Author/artist George Crespo has created a colorful, spirited retelling of a story from the Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest, accompanied by his energetic, brightly hued paintings All the animals have always eaten their food raw, because they never knew it could be any other way. But Iwariwa the cayman has a special magic that makes his food hot and delicious, and he's not sharing. With clever planning and split-second teamwork, the other animals get the better of the selfish cayman and persuade him to part with his secret. Note, pronunciation guide, map. A portion of the author's royalties will be donated to Amanaka'a Amazon Network/Yanomami Health Fund..
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The Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world's tribal peoples Jacques Lizot lived among them for over fifteen years and has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. The tales are revealing in the insights they provide into the Indians' daily experience; their shamanism, magic and sorcery; and conflict and alliance with other villages. The result is a richly evocative and intimate account - illustrated with revealing photographs of the Yanomami's own perceptions of their world - recreating in detail the atmosphere, speech, noises, smells and images of life in the Amazon forest..
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Set of 3 very attractive little books with beautiful photography in a very nice slipcover decorated with 8 wonderful photographs..
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A masterpiece This is a book both broad and deep, both historical and structural, vividly presenting individuals and placing them in the sweep of social and historical process. A major contribution is the new perspective it offers on the role of time in the organization of society. It could become an anthropological classic.Waud Kracke, author of Force and Persuasion: Leadership in an Amazonian Society The Yanomami people of Brazil first attracted anthropological and popular attention in the 1960s, when they were portrayed as essentially primitive and violent in the widely read book Yanomamo: The Fierce People. To this image of the Yanomami another has recently been added: that of victims of the economic rapacity devouring the Amazon. Sanum Memories moves beyond these images to provide the first anthropologically sophisticated account of the Yanomami and their social organization, kinship, and marriage, capturing both individual experiences and the broader sociological trends that engulf them. A poignant personal story as well, it draws on Alcida Ramos's extensive fieldwork among the Sanum (the northernmost Yanomami subgroup) from 1968 to 1992, as she reports on the brutal impact of many invasionsfrom road construction to the gold rush that brought the Yanomami social chaos, thousands of deaths, devastation of gardens and forest, and a disquietingly uncertain future. At the cutting edge of anthropological description and analysis, Sanum Memories ponders the importance of "otherness" to the Sanum; describes Sanum spaces, from the grandiosity of the rain forest to cozy family compartments; analyzes their notions of time, from the minute reckoning of routine village life to historical and metaphysical macro-time; shows how power and authority are generated and allocated in space and time; and examines the secrecy of personal names and the all-pervading consequences of disclosing them. "Ramos's study is anthropologically sophisticated and ethnographically fascinating. She has been able to construct a particularly refined and compelling account of important problems presented by one of the most interesting indigenous groups in South America, an account that reflects her years of careful and insightful thinking about Sanum."Donald Pollock, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Preface by Trudie Styler. Faces Of The Rainforst, Valdir Cruz's first monograph, is a prophetic portrait of a people on the brink of extinction The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some 20 centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are one of the last remaining socieities untouched by modernization, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of the Yanomami, as documented in Darkness In El Dorado by Patrick Tierney. Like Edward S. Curtis before him, Cruz's haunting images are made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is about to disappear off the face of the earth. "For anyone looking at Valdir Cruz's beautiful, silvery photographs of the remote Indians of the Amazon rain forests, it is difficult to shake the notion that they are images of ghosts populating ghost towns...The ghostly feeling is underscored by the knowledge that the very existence of these Indians, known as the Yanomami in Brazil and Yanomamo in Venezuela - the last tribes in the Americas still untouched by civilization - is gravely threatened." (Randy Kennedy, The New York Times) "It will be one of the terrible ironies of our time if we preserve the image of the rainforest and destory the thing itself and its inhabitants. While that possibility hangs in the balance, here they are, forest and people - images o arrest the eye and however calm and lovely they may be, provoke the mind's unease." (Vicki Goldberg).
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