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