Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography

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Psychology Press, 1995 - 253 páginas

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.

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TELLING NAMES
1
AT LONG HAMMOCK
28
OTHER VOICES
58
ROMANCE 38
86
FOUR FIRE AND GIVING
119
REMEMBERING
157
SUBMITTING
185
ΑΙΜΑ
211
REFERENCES
239
INDEX
247
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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.

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