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Spirit of the rainforest : a Yanomamö shaman's story / Mark Andrew Ritchie.
- Title
- Spirit of the rainforest : a Yanomamö shaman's story / Mark Andrew Ritchie.
- Author
- Ritchie, Mark A.
- Publication
- Chicago : Island Lake Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | S.A. R 510 s 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The Yanomano of the Amazon - endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? [In this book, the author] speaks for his people. Jungleman provides ... accounts of life-or-death battles among his people - and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. [This book], the story of Jungleman is [a] powerful document.--Back cover.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Long story goes before every fight -- Beginning: split truth. It's never beautiful where you aren't wanted ; You are so brave ; Not every spirit is what he appears ; Our pain is not our spirits' fault ; We want you so much -- Middle: doesn't-grab-women. Father eagle never found his eaglet ; Blinded by lies ; Very nice word ; Pulling his eye down ; We can have both ways -- End: nobody's that stupid. They think we're animals ; Why don't you leave? ; Vengeance is mine ; Killers like me ; Epilogue: be good to her ; Author's addendum: so many of them are dead -- Appendix. 'Yanomamo: noble savages or Hobbesian brutes?" ; "Missionaries 1, anthropologists, 0 ; "Yanomamology, missiology, and anthropology" -- Glossary -- Family relations -- Legend of characters and locations -- Documentation.
- ISBN
- 0964695235 (pbk.)
- 0964695219
- LCCN
- ^^^99073686^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library