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Book Yano  ma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helena Valero
  • Publisher : New York : Dutton
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Yano ma written by Helena Valero and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1970 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brazil s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization

Download or read book Brazil s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization written by Linda Rabben and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Yanoama Indians

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  • Author : William J. Smole
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 1477300368
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book The Yanoama Indians written by William J. Smole and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Falling Sky

Download or read book The Falling Sky written by Davi Kopenawa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Tales of the Yanomami

Download or read book Tales of the Yanomami written by Jacques Lizot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After living fifteen years with the Yanomami, Lizot provides direct accounts of daily experience, shamanism, conflict and alliances.

Book Yanomami

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  • Author : Rob Borofsky
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005-01-31
  • ISBN : 0520244044
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Yanomami written by Rob Borofsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations

Download or read book State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations written by José Antonio Kelly and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Claudia Andujar  the Yanomami Struggle

Download or read book Claudia Andujar the Yanomami Struggle written by Thyago Nogueira and published by Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Noble Savages

Download or read book Noble Savages written by Napoleon A. Chagnon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography.

Book Darkness in El Dorado

Download or read book Darkness in El Dorado written by Patrick Tierney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indigenism

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  • Author : Alcida Rita Ramos
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780299160449
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Indigenism written by Alcida Rita Ramos and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous people comprise only 0.2% of Brazil's population, yet occupy a prominent role in the nation's consciousness. In her important and passionate new book, anthropologist Alcida Ramos explains this irony, exploring Indian and non-Indian attitudes about interethnic relations. Ramos contends that imagery about indigenous people reflects an ambivalence Brazil has about itself as a nation, for Indians reveal Brazilians' contradiction between their pride in ethnic pluralism and desire for national homogeneity. Based on her more than thirty years of fieldwork and activism on behalf of the Yanomami Indians, Ramos explains the complex ideology called indigenism. She evaluates its meaning through the relations of Brazilian Indians with religious and lay institutions, non-governmental organizations, official agencies such as the National Indian Foundation as well as the very discipline of anthropology. Ramos not only examines the imagery created by Brazilians of European descent--members of the Catholic church, government officials, the army and the state agency for Indian affairs--she also scrutinizes Indians' own self portrayals used in defending their ethnic rights against the Brazilian state. Ramos' thoughtful and complete analysis of the relation between indigenous people of Brazil and the state will be of great interest to lawmakers and political theorists, environmental and civil rights activists, developmental specialists and policymakers, and those concerned with human rights in Latin America.

Book Y  anomam    the Fierce People

Download or read book Y anomam the Fierce People written by Napoleon A. Chagnon and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow s World

Download or read book Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow s World written by and published by Survival International. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yanoama in Brazil  1979

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  • Author : Alcida Rita Ramos
  • Publisher : Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs ; Cambridge, Mass. : Anthropology Resource Center
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book The Yanoama in Brazil 1979 written by Alcida Rita Ramos and published by Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs ; Cambridge, Mass. : Anthropology Resource Center. This book was released on 1979 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yanomami Warfare

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  • Author : R. Brian Ferguson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Yanomami Warfare written by R. Brian Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yanomami Warfare, R. Brian Ferguson shows that the Yanomami, far from living in pristine isolation, have been subject to periodic waves of Western encroachment for the last 350 years. Documenting this history of contact in comprehensive detail, the author debunks the popular misconception of the unacculturated Yanomami while creating a framework for understanding their remarkable history of violence.

Book Sanum   Memories

Download or read book Sanum Memories written by Alcida Rita Ramos and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Sanumá 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 Sanumá (the northernmost Yanomami subgroup) from 1968 to 1992, as she reports on the brutal impact of many invasions--from 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, Sanumá Memories ponders the importance of "otherness" to the Sanumá; describes Sanumá 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 Sanumá."--Donald Pollock, State University of New York at Buffalo

Book Yanomami

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc Andre Meyers
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-07-29
  • ISBN : 9781530457854
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Yanomami written by Marc Andre Meyers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruthless mining company's greed threatens a Yanomami Indian village as a guerrilla leader's daughter vows to carry on his legacy in the adventure novel Yanomami. Berkeley student Natasha Chauny returns to Colombia's San Vicente del Caguan to pay respects to her father, Comandante Paulo, after he's assassinated. She reads his journals, which describe Paulo's disenchantment with the FARC guerrilla movement and his newly discovered dedication to the Amazon Indians. After visiting her father's former comrades, Natasha stops at a nearby Yanomami village bordering Brazil. Her visit coincides with a mining company's plot to displace the Indians and mine a deposit of cassiterite worth millions of dollars without giving them a share. Mercenaries and the Yanomami will clash-with the village's future at stake. How much is Natasha willing to risk to follow in her father's footsteps when the fighting begins? Feel the Yanomami's pleas for help as author Marc Andr� Meyers, a distinguished professor of materials science at the University of California, San Diego, exposes the methods that mining companies use to take over native inhabitants' lands. It's an adventure worth reading and an up-close look at the dangers that the Yanomami face in South America.