Spirit of the rainforest : a Yanomam o shaman's story / Mark Andrew Ritchie. [print]

By:

Ritchie, Mark A [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780964695238
9780964695214

Subject(s):

Shamanism -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)

LOC classification:

F2520.R611.S657 2000
F2520

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Contents:

Beginning: split truth. It's never beautiful where you aren't wanted ; You are so brave ; Not every spirit is what he appears ; Our pain is not our spirits' fault ; We want you so much -- Middle: doesn't-grab-women. Father eagle never found his eaglet ; Blinded by lies ; Very nice word ; Pulling his eye down ; We can have both ways -- End: nobody's that stupid. They think we're animals ; Why don't you leave? ; Vengeance is mine ; Killers like me ; Epilogue: be good to her ; Author's addendum: so many of them are dead -- Appendix. 'Yanomamo: noble savages or Hobbesian brutes?" ; "Missionaries 1, anthropologists, 0 ; "Yanomamology, missiology, and anthropology" -- Glossary -- Family relations -- Legend of characters and locations -- Documentation.

Subject: The Yanomano of the Amazon - endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? [In this book, the author] speaks for his people. Jungleman provides ... accounts of life-or-death battles among his people - and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. [This book], the story of Jungleman is [a] powerful document.--Back cover.

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Long story goes before every fight -- Beginning: split truth. It's never beautiful where you aren't wanted ; You are so brave ; Not every spirit is what he appears ; Our pain is not our spirits' fault ; We want you so much -- Middle: doesn't-grab-women. Father eagle never found his eaglet ; Blinded by lies ; Very nice word ; Pulling his eye down ; We can have both ways -- End: nobody's that stupid. They think we're animals ; Why don't you leave? ; Vengeance is mine ; Killers like me ; Epilogue: be good to her ; Author's addendum: so many of them are dead -- Appendix. 'Yanomamo: noble savages or Hobbesian brutes?" ; "Missionaries 1, anthropologists, 0 ; "Yanomamology, missiology, and anthropology" -- Glossary -- Family relations -- Legend of characters and locations -- Documentation.

The Yanomano of the Amazon - endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? [In this book, the author] speaks for his people. Jungleman provides ... accounts of life-or-death battles among his people - and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. [This book], the story of Jungleman is [a] powerful document.--Back cover.

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