TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kopenawa,Davi
AU  - Albert,Bruce
AU  - Elliott,Nicholas
AU  - Dundy,Alison
AU  - McKibben,Bill
TI  - The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
SN  - 9780674293564
AV  - F2520 
U1  - 981/.0049892 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Kopenawa, Davi
KW  - Shamanism-Brazil-History-20th century
KW  - Shamans-Brazil-Biography
KW  - Yanomamo Indians-History-20th century
KW  - Yanomamo Indians-Brazil-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Bill McKibben -- Maps -- Setting the Scene -- Words Given -- I. Becoming Other -- 1. Drawn Words -- 2. The First Shaman -- 3. The Xapiri's Gaze -- 4. The Animal Ancestors -- 5. The Initiation -- 6. Spirits' Houses -- 7. Image and Skin -- 8. The Sky and the Forest -- II. Metal Smoke -- 9. Outsider Images -- 10. First Contacts -- 11. The Mission -- 12. Becoming a White Man? -- 13. The Road -- 14. Dreaming the Forest -- 15. Earth Eaters -- 16. Cannibal Gold -- III. The Falling Sky -- 17. Talking to White People -- 18. Stone Houses -- 19. Merchandise Love -- 20. In the City -- 21. From One War to Another -- 22. The Flowers of Dream -- 23. The Spirit of the Forest -- 24. The Shamans' Death -- Words of Omama -- How This Book Was Written -- Appendix A: Ethnonym, Language, and Orthography -- Appendix B: The Yanomami in Brazil -- Appendix C: Watorikɨ -- Appendix D: The Haximu Massacre -- Notes -- Ethnobiological Glossary -- Geographic Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - 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
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