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The falling sky : words of a Yanomami shaman /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Jean Malaurie
- Maps
- I. Becoming other. Drawn words ; First shaman ; Xapiri's gaze ; Animal ancestors ; Initiation ; Spirits' houses ; Image and skin ; Sky and the forest
- II. Metal smoke. Outsider images ; First contacts ; Mission ; Becoming a white man? ; Road ; Dreaming the forest ; Earth eaters ; Cannibal gold
- III. The falling sky. Talking to white people ; Stone houses ; Merchandise love ; In the city ; From one war to another ; Flowers of dream ; Spirit of the forest ; Shamans' death
- Words of Omama
- How this book was written
- Appendix A. Ethnonym, language, and orthography
- Appendix B. The Yanomami in Brazil
- Appendix C. Watoriki
- Appendix D. The Haximu Massacre.