Getting to know Waiwai: an Amazonian ethnography / Alan Tormaid Campbell
1995, 1st Edition. London; New York: Routledge. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #355298
Physical description: 262 pages. 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;. Subjects: Wayampi Indians.
Indians of South America.
Indians of South America Amazon River Region. Indians of South America Brazil.
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