Noble savages : my life among two dangerous tribes--the Yanomamö and the anthropologists
Record details
- ISBN: 9780684855103 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0684855100 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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531 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Culture shock : my first year in the field -- Discovering the significant of the names -- Raids and revenge : why villages fission and move -- Bringing my family to Yanomamöland and my early encounters with the Salesians -- First contact with the new Yanomamö villages -- Geography lesson -- From fieldwork to science -- Conflicts over women -- Fighting and violence -- First contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri -- Yanomamö origins and their fertile crescent -- Yanomamö social organization -- Three headmen of authority -- Twilight in cultural anthropology : postmodernism and radical advocacy supplant science -- Confrontation with the Salesians -- Darkness in cultural anthropology. |
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Subject: | Yanomamö Indians Sociobiology Human behavior Social evolution |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 304.5 Chag (Text) | 33294001871094 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |