The Falling Sky : Words of a Yanomami Shaman / Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert.
Kopenawa, Davi, author.; Albert, Bruce, author.; Dundy, Alison, contributor.; Elliott, Nicholas, contributor.; McKibben, Bill, contributor.
2023
F2520.1.Y3 K6613 2023eb
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Title The Falling Sky : Words of a Yanomami Shaman / Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert.
Author Kopenawa, Davi, author.
ISBN 9780674293564
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293564
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (648 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674293564 doi
Call Number F2520.1.Y3 K6613 2023eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 981/.0049892
Summary The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year"A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one's personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds."-Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review"The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us."-Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian"A literary treasure...a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence."-New ScientistA now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon.A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples' rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.
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Added Author Albert, Bruce, author.
Dundy, Alison, contributor.
Elliott, Nicholas, contributor.
McKibben, Bill, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Maps
Setting the Scene
Words Given
I. Becoming Other
1. Drawn Words
2. The First Shaman
3. The Xapiri's Gaze
4. The Animal Ancestors
5. The Initiation
6. Spirits' Houses
7. Image and Skin
8. The Sky and the Forest
II. Metal Smoke
9. Outsider Images
10. First Contacts
11. The Mission
12. Becoming a White Man?
13. The Road
14. Dreaming the Forest
15. Earth Eaters
16. Cannibal Gold
III. The Falling Sky
17. Talking to White People
18. Stone Houses
19. Merchandise Love
20. In the City
21. From One War to Another
22. The Flowers of Dream
23. The Spirit of the Forest
24. The Shamans' Death
Words of Omama
How This Book Was Written
Map
Appendix A. Ethnonym, Language, and Orthography
Appendix B. The Yanomami in Brazil
Appendix C. Watoriki
Appendix D. The Haximu Massacre
Notes
Ethnobiological Glossary
Geographic Glossary
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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