Product Description: Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology—questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy—one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios—as its starting point, this book draws readers into not only reflecting on but refashioning the very heart and soul of the discipline...read more

Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the tribe in radiation studies. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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The Kayapo and the Yanomami are indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest. This study examines their relationship with Brazilian society and the wider world, focusing on the different ways the groups have responded to Western incursions into the rainforest.

Product Description: Scholars, especially Napoleon Chagnon, have portrayed the Yanomami as fierce people. Yanomami themselves resent that portrayal and state that they are no more fierce than those who label them. Moreover, a number of scholars argue that such a portrayal has had dire consequences for these Indian people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Yanomamo of the Amazon- endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? Now for the first time, a powerful Yanomamo shaman speaks for his people. Brutally riveting,the story of Jungleman is an extraordinary and powerful document.

Product Description: This text provides an anthropological account of the Yanomami and their social organisation, kinship and marriage, moving from the microcosm of individual experience to the broader sociological trends that engulf them. It draws on extensive fieldwork among the Sanuma.

Product Description: The Yanomami people of Brazil first attracted anthropological and popular attention in the 1960s, when they were portrayed as essentially primitive and violent in the widely read book Yanomamo: The Fierce People. To this image of the Yanomami another has recently been added: that of victims of the economic rapacity devouring the Amazon...read more