Life Among the Yanomami: The Story of Change Among the Xilixana on the Mucajai River in Brazil - Couverture souple

Peters, John F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551111934 ISBN 13 : 9781551111933

Editeur : Broadview Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John F. Peters is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he initiated and now coordinates the Development and International Studies Program. He is co-author of The Population Dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomami.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551111934
• ISBN 13: 9781551111933
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible