Life Among the Yanomami / Health Care International c/o John F. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

c/o John F. Peters, Health Care International, author.

Series:

Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yanomamo Indians--Brazil--Mucajaí River Valley--Social life and customs.

Yanomamo Indians.

Social change--Brazil--Mucajaí River Valley.

Social change.

Mucajaí River Valley (Brazil)--Social life and customs.

Mucajaí River Valley (Brazil).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich and well-rounded understanding of this famously isolated people. While considerable detail of traditional way of life is provided, particular attention is devoted to the realities of social change arising from initial exposure to missionaries (of whom the author was one) to the more recent pressures from mining and the intervention of government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Family and village life, health and health care, demography, politicization (that includes Yanomami criticism of Western Society), and on cultural survival are among the key issues explored by Peters-compelling issues for indigenous peoples the world over.

Contents:

Yanomami, Xilixana, and the anthropological approach

Field entry, language-learning, and cultural surprises

Village life and social culture : basic patterns

Everyday life : food and child care, hunting and fishing

Family and social organization

Socialization and life stages

Myths, spirits, and magic

The precontact period : a time of isolation

Postcontact history : enter the missionaries

The missionary presence : translation, literacy, and social effects

"Warfare," raids, and revenge

Adaptation in a precapitalist society : agents of change

Health as an agent of change

Broader considerations in the study of social change

Reflections on social change among the Yanomami.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9781442602694

1442602694

OCLC:

243600537