Tales of the Yanomami

Tales of the Yanomami
Author: Jacques Lizot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 1991-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0521406722

After living fifteen years with the Yanomami, Lizot provides direct accounts of daily experience, shamanism, conflict and alliances.

Yanomami

Yanomami
Author: Rob Borofsky
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2005-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520244044

Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy - one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios - as its starting point, this books considers how fieldwork is done, how professional credibility and integrity are maintained, and how the discipline might change to address central theoretical and methodological problems. Both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controve.

The Falling Sky

The Falling Sky
Author: Davi Kopenawa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674292138

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 and preserve the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon Rainforest Magic

Amazon Rainforest Magic
Author: Barbara Crane Navarro
Publisher: Barbara Crane Navarro
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9782954746111

SERIES: AMAZON RAINFOREST MAGIC The magic of the Amazon rainforest enchanted artist Barbara Crane Navarro as she spent the winter months with the Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil over a period of twelve years. These travels inspired her to write her children's books. The vividly illustrated stories in this series evoke daily life in the rainforest and the magical quality of the Yanomami's relation to the plants and animals around them. The first book, "Amazon Rainforest Magic: The Adventures of Namowe, a Yanomami Boy," recounts the journey of Namowe, a thirteen year old Yanomami boy living in the rainforest, as he seeks a cure for his baby sister.

Yanomami

Yanomami
Author: Rob Borofsky
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520938569

Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology—questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy—one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios—as its starting point, this book draws readers into not only reflecting on but refashioning the very heart and soul of the discipline. It is both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controversy available and an innovative and searching assessment of the current state of anthropology. The Yanomami controversy came to public attention through the publication of Patrick Tierney's best-selling book, Darkness in El Dorado, in which he accuses James Neel, a prominent geneticist who belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as Napoleon Chagnon, whose introductory text on the Yanomami is perhaps the best-selling anthropological monograph of all time, of serious human rights violations. This book identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and raises deeper, structural questions about the discipline. A portion of the book is devoted to a unique roundtable in which important scholars on different sides of the issues debate back and forth with each other. This format draws readers into deciding, for themselves, where they stand on the controversy’s—and many of anthropology’s—central concerns. All of the royalties from this book will be donated to helping the Yanomami improve their healthcare.

Show Way

Show Way
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399237496

Winner of a Newbery Honor! Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways -- maps for slaves to follow to freedom. When she grew up and had a little girl, she passed on this knowledge. And generations later, Soonie -- who was born free -- taught her own daughter how to sew beautiful quilts to be sold at market and how to read. From slavery to freedom, through segregation, freedom marches and the fight for literacy, the tradition they called Show Way has been passed down by the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family as a way to remember the past and celebrate the possibilities of the future. Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives.

Yanomami

Yanomami
Author: Marc Andre Meyers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-07-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530457854

A ruthless mining company's greed threatens a Yanomami Indian village as a guerrilla leader's daughter vows to carry on his legacy in the adventure novel Yanomami. Berkeley student Natasha Chauny returns to Colombia's San Vicente del Caguan to pay respects to her father, Comandante Paulo, after he's assassinated. She reads his journals, which describe Paulo's disenchantment with the FARC guerrilla movement and his newly discovered dedication to the Amazon Indians. After visiting her father's former comrades, Natasha stops at a nearby Yanomami village bordering Brazil. Her visit coincides with a mining company's plot to displace the Indians and mine a deposit of cassiterite worth millions of dollars without giving them a share. Mercenaries and the Yanomami will clash-with the village's future at stake. How much is Natasha willing to risk to follow in her father's footsteps when the fighting begins? Feel the Yanomami's pleas for help as author Marc Andr� Meyers, a distinguished professor of materials science at the University of California, San Diego, exposes the methods that mining companies use to take over native inhabitants' lands. It's an adventure worth reading and an up-close look at the dangers that the Yanomami face in South America.

Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Total Pages: 401
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 2738180248

Amazon Burning

Amazon Burning
Author: Victoria Griffith
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938231953

Aspiring journalist Emma leaves behind student life to begin an internship at her father’s newspaper in Rio. Then, a famous environmentalist, Milton Silva, is mysteriously murdered. Emma enters the Amazon rainforest to investigate. She has to brave its primal world, and a variety of other risks, in her fight to survive and solve the mystery.

Amazon Diary

Amazon Diary
Author: Hudson Talbott
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Indians of South America
ISBN: 9780698116993

Twelve-year-old Alex is rescued from a plane crash by the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela and spends several weeks in the Amazon jungle with them, learning and appreciating their way of life.