The Falling Sky : : Words of a Yanomami Shaman / / Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert.
The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA 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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 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
- Map
- Appendix A. Ethnonym, Language, and Orthography
- Appendix B. The Yanomami in Brazil
- Appendix C. Watoriki
- Appendix D. The Haximu Massacre
- Notes
- Ethnobiological Glossary
- Geographic Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index