Carregue numa fotografia para ir para os Livros Google.
A carregar... Ya̦nomamö: The Fierce Peoplepor Napoleon A. Chagnon
Nenhum(a) A carregar...
Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Note that this is apparently a reprint of a book from the 1960s. The author has since been discredited. I studied this for an anthropology class. ( ) As a true classic in the literature of cultural anthropology "Yanomamo" was as influential as Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa" in the way that it brought a rather foreign culture to a wide Western audience. As with Mead though there are lingering questions about the author and his relationship to his subjects. Aside from these this book is one of the few that gives a glimpse of a group of Amazonian natives who, at the time of it's writing, had very little contact with outsiders. The ceremonies and lifestyle presented are perhaps as foreign as ever to those in the "civilized" world as our technologically saturated society continues to remove us from meaningful interactions with the natural world. While the people profiled in this book are considered "primitive" and still close to the stone age by the author may actually be survivors from a greater civilization, which collapsed, that once flourished in the Amazon basin and whose archaeological remains are just now being found. This new information was unavailable to Chagnon and led to his belief that they were analogous to stone age people and had survived unchanged while the rest of the world advanced around them. If you have an interest in tribal societies or Amazonia this short book may pique your interest to pursue this fascinating group of people though works by other scholars. This tribe's name is alternately spelled Yanomami. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence à Série da Editora
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)306.08998Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions With Respect to Particular GroupsClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se num Autor LibraryThing. |