Chapter 1 Telling Names; Chapter 2 At Long Hammock; Chapter 3 Other Voices; Chapter 4 Romance; Chapter 5 Four, Fire, and Giving; Chapter 6 Remembering; Chapter 7 Submitting; Chapter 8 Aima;
Alan Tormaid Campbell teaches Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapí (Polygon, 1990) and has been involved with the Wayapí Indians since 1974.
..."classic ethnography about a group of people called the
Wayapi...Campbell appropriates verses from Thoreau, Blake,
Wordsworth, and Shakespeare...one of the last anthropologists to
experience such an "untouched" culture in the face of the
increasing transnationalism and western materialism. Salient issues
of forced development, "modernization," and assimilation are
presented in a well organized and lucid monograph. Its descriptive
content (even with its "romance") is refreshing in a generation
where many contemporary studies have become preoccupied with global
transculturalisms.."
-"Chicago Anthropology Exchange
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