Getting to Know Waiwai
An Amazonian Ethnography
1st Edition
Published on 11. September 2002
264 pages
978-1-134-80104-6 (ISBN)
Description
Living with the Wayapi, and their charismatic leader Waiwai, is a serious adventure. It is demanding, and can turn dangerous in a moment. The environment is a difficult one, but beautiful and baffling in its richness. And the job of learning about the people is like a journey without end.
Alan Campbell tells the story of these people, and of the time he spent with them, in an imaginative, beautifully written account which looks back from a century into the future to relate a way of life that is being destroyed. In doing so, he addresses important and complex issues in current anthroplogical theory in a way which makes them accessible without sacrificing any of their subtlety.
Alan Campbell tells the story of these people, and of the time he spent with them, in an imaginative, beautifully written account which looks back from a century into the future to relate a way of life that is being destroyed. In doing so, he addresses important and complex issues in current anthroplogical theory in a way which makes them accessible without sacrificing any of their subtlety.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
13 s/w Tabellen
13 Tables, black and white
File size
12,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-80104-6 (9781134801046)
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08/1995
1st Edition
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Person
Alan Tormaid Campbell teaches Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapi (Polygon, 1990) and has been involved with the Wayapi Indians since 1974.
Content
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;
