This is an absorbing, thrilling account of an anthropologist's foray into the heart of the Amazon, where for 12 years he lived among the Yanomama, learned their language, fell in love with one of their women, then found himself in a harrowing life-and-death struggle to keep from losing her.
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This is an absorbing, thrilling account of an anthropologist's foray into the heart of the Amazon, where for 12 years he lived among the Yanomama, learned their language, fell in love with one of their women, then found himself in a harrowing life-and-death struggle to keep from losing her.
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Used: Acceptable. Size: 1.3 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches; One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama. Hardback with dustjacket-1987-good condition--used books, secondhand books, for sale, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, non-fiction books delivered world wide. This is an extraordinarily human account of the Yanomama Indians of the Amazon rain forest, a people who have in the past been rather dehumanized by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomama: The Fierce People (Holt, 1968). Good began working with them in the mid-1970s, living in their communities, studying their lives, and eventually marrying a Yanomama. He does not avoid discussing the violence they are capable of wreaking upon one another, but he sets it within the broader context of love, kindness, and respect that permeates most of their interpersonal lives. This is a personal rather than scholarly account, but it provides such powerful counterpoint to the woefully unfair but widely circulated accounts of the Yanomama that it should be made available everywhere.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. jacket worn at upper edges, jacket a bit soiled, slit in spine of jacket; copy has faded text blocks, old price sticker remnant on flyleaf. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade.
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Used Very Good. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.
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Near Fine. Book Not ex-lib. Softcover in illustrated green wraps, 8vo. 1st printing. 349pp. B/W plates. Index. Near Fine. Moderate curl with no creases or folds to front wrap. Else Fine: clean, tight, square and unmarked.
