The Yanomami Of South America
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The Yanomami Of South America
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Author : Raya Tahan
language : en
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Release Date : 2002-01-01
The Yanomami Of South America written by Raya Tahan and has been published by Lerner Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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.
Yanomami
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Author : Christine Webster
language : en
Publisher: World Cultures
Release Date : 2013-07
Yanomami written by Christine Webster and has been published by World Cultures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Facts about the Yanomami indigenous peoples of South America. Includes information about their traditions, myths, social activities, the development of their culture, methods of hunting and gathering, rituals, and their daily lives. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students"--Provided by publisher.
Yanomanis I E Yanomamis
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Author : Elizabeth Sirimarco
language : en
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Release Date : 2000
Yanomanis I E Yanomamis written by Elizabeth Sirimarco and has been published by Creative Publishing International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Examines the history, life, traditions, and culture of the Yanomami, aborigines of South America whose territory stretches across 30,000 square miles of tropical rain forest in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.
The Anthropology Of Marriage In Lowland South America
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Author : Paul Valentine
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2017-05-09
The Anthropology Of Marriage In Lowland South America written by Paul Valentine and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Social Science categories.
"Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them."--Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon "A landmark volume and a major contribution to the study of kinship and marriage in Amazonian societies, an area of the world that has been pivotal to our understanding of the biocultural dimensions of cousin marriage and polygamy."--Nancy E. Levine, author of The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry. Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures, The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America defies the tendency to focus only on the social structure of kinship and marriage that is so common in kinship studies. Instead, the contributors to this volume examine the people that conform to or deviate from that structure and their reasons for doing so. They look not only at deviations in kinship behavior motivated by gender, economics, politics, history, ecology, and sentimentality but also at how globalization and modernization are changing the ancestral norms and values themselves. This is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies of indigenous life. Paul Valentine is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of East London. Stephen Beckerman is adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Together, Valentine and Beckerman have coedited Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America and Cultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America. Catherine Alès is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and is the author of Yanomami, l’ire et le désir.
Savages The Life And Killing Of The Yanomami
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Author : Dennison Berwick
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-05-14
Savages The Life And Killing Of The Yanomami written by Dennison Berwick and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-14 with categories.
Yanomami men and women tell their own stories of their contact with the outside world, especially the decimation brought by an illegal invasion of goldminers since 1987 and the challenges they now face in contact with Whites. This book is the only one reporting from the Yanomami point of view about the attempts by the Brazilian government and gold miners in late 1980s to destroy them, the upsets in the cosmos caused by extracting gold from the earth, and their valiant resistance and fight for survival in the Amazon rain forest. Extract from the Introduction, "There is nothing inevitable about the destruction of tribal societies. What is happening today to the Yanomami in the Amazon, and to many other peoples worldwide, is the deliberate theft of land and killing of people, as has happened wherever Europeans have landed on foreign shores. Apologists seeking to explain this subjugation as the unhappy consequence of "evolution" or "progress" are only giving themselves excuses; conquest by these forces is our own killing-machine by another name. The statistics for mass deaths of indigenous peoples since 1492 are often quoted but worth repeating. An estimated 3.5 million people lived in tribal societies in the area of South America known today as Brazil; only about 250,000 survive. Dozens of tribes have become extinct and others have been devastated. For example, the Nambiquara along the southern watershed of the Amazon numbered 20,000 people when first visited by Europeans in 1909. By 1970, only 6OO Nambiquara were left alive in a reserve 0.5 per cent of the size of their traditional land. I arrived in the Amazon for the first time in 1986 with all the usual preconceptions of a liberal education; I believed the deaths of tribal societies were tragic but inevitable. The stronger (subconsciously understanding this to mean superior) forces from one society had won over the weaker. It has happened throughout history by force of arms and by force of trade. Tribes, being primitive (of coarse meaning only less developed), fell apart when shaken up by the arrival of Europeans. Armed resistance only emphasized the superiority of our weapons over tomahawks or bows and arrows. Like millions of other fair-minded Europeans, I believed the social progress that came from contact with the Whiteman inevitably meant the destruction of the tribal Indians of South America. Indians in contact with Europeans are drawn irresistibly into the Whiteman's camp - begging for food or tools proves the superiority of our culture for it can supply items the Indians want; in time, they wear our clothes, pray in our churches, buy our radios and abandon their war paint and feathers. Disease can speed up this implosion, but the process of social evolution continues and, inevitably, the Indian disappears. This is what I believed and it is a lie." "...He has a refreshing lack of pretension. As an added bonus, Savages is beautifully written -- there's a rythmn to Berwick's prose that takes the reader gently through the book." Sue Sutton, Globe & Mail.
Yanomami
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Author : Rob Borofsky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-01-31
Yanomami written by Rob Borofsky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-31 with History categories.
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.
The Falling Sky
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Author : Davi Kopenawa
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
The Falling Sky written by Davi Kopenawa and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Social Science categories.
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.
Folk Literature Of The Yanomami Indians
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Author : Johannes Wilbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Folk Literature Of The Yanomami Indians written by Johannes Wilbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exploring The Life Myth And Art Of South America
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Author : Tony Allan
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Exploring The Life Myth And Art Of South America written by Tony Allan and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Focusing on both the ancient (Inca) and living (Yanomami) cultures of South America, this volume captures the South American mythmakers’ fascination with shape shifting and magic. It includes the tale of the first Inca, who built the city of Cuzco on the spot where his staff disappeared into the ground, and the sky people, who discovered the rain forest teeming with animals. Readers will learn about the many cultures and mythologies of South America and gain a better understanding of how the past has shaped the present.
Yanomami
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Author : Marc Andre Meyers
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-29
Yanomami written by Marc Andre Meyers and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-29 with categories.
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.