Getting to know Waiwai : an Amazonian ethnography / Alan Tormaid Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Alan Tormaid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wayampi Indians.

Indians of South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A beautifully written account of time spent with the Wayapi that looks forward to Wayapi survivors one hundred years from now and considers what will be left as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest proceeds.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; TELLING NAMES The Amazon Forest, the Old Caledonian Forest, and the Battle of Wounded Knee. What names mean. Arrival and first weeks with the Wayap.; AT LONG HAMMOCK In the woods. Men hunting. Women and manioc.; OTHER VOICES Missionaries. Government officials. An exiled Indian.; ROMANCE Understanding and idealization. Sprees, drunkenness, and dancing. Murder. 'Lesser breeds without the Law.' Chiefs and power.

FOUR, FIRE, AND GIVING Relationship terms. Four as the fundamental mode of social logic. Fire as the fundamental mode of production. Giving as the fundamental mode of morality.REMEMBERING Teaching literacy. What myths are. Narrative styles in myths.; SUBMITTING Shamanism and how to understand it. The anaconda and birth precautions, 'the couvade'.; AIMA Cultural change. Integration. Ethnic identity and ethnic survival.; REFERENCES; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-80104-1

1-134-80105-X

0-203-43280-0

1-280-32096-6

9786610320967

9780203432808

OCLC:

475876739