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The Falling Sky : Words of a Yanomami Shaman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (649 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674293564
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Falling SkyDDC classification:
  • 981/.0049892
LOC classification:
  • F2520
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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