The Falling Sky : : Words of a Yanomami Shaman /

The Falling Sky : : Words of a Yanomami Shaman / / Davi Kopenawa.

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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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Kopenawa, Davi,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (648 p.) :; 7 halftones, 24 line illustrations, 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Maps
  • Setting the Scene
  • Words Given
  • I. Becoming O1ther
  • II. Metal Smoke
  • III. The Falling Sky
  • Words of Omama
  • How This Book Was Written
  • Appendices
  • 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

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