The Yanomami people of Brazil first attracted anthropological and popular attention in the 1960s, when they were portrayed as essentially primitive and violent in the widely read book Yanomamo: The Fierce People . To this image of the Yanomami another has recently been added: that of victims of the economic rapacity devouring the Amazon. Sanum??? Memories moves beyond these images to provide the first anthropologically sophisticated account of the Yanomami and their social organization, kinship, and marriage, capturing ...
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The Yanomami people of Brazil first attracted anthropological and popular attention in the 1960s, when they were portrayed as essentially primitive and violent in the widely read book Yanomamo: The Fierce People . To this image of the Yanomami another has recently been added: that of victims of the economic rapacity devouring the Amazon. Sanum??? Memories moves beyond these images to provide the first anthropologically sophisticated account of the Yanomami and their social organization, kinship, and marriage, capturing both individual experiences and the broader sociological trends that engulf them. A poignant personal story as well, it draws on Alcida Ramos's extensive fieldwork among the Sanum??? (the northernmost Yanomami subgroup) from 1968 to 1992, as she reports on the brutal impact of many invasions--from road construction to the gold rush that brought the Yanomami social chaos, thousands of deaths, devastation of gardens and forest, and a disquietingly uncertain future. At the cutting edge of anthropological description and analysis, Sanum??? Memories ponders the importance of "otherness" to the Sanum???; describes Sanum??? spaces, from the grandiosity of the rain forest to cozy family compartments; analyzes their notions of time, from the minute reckoning of routine village life to historical and metaphysical macro-time; shows how power and authority are generated and allocated in space and time; and examines the secrecy of personal names and the all-pervading consequences of disclosing them. "Ramos's study is anthropologically sophisticated and ethnographically fascinating. She has been able to construct a particularly refined and compelling account of important problems presented by one of the most interesting indigenous groups in South America, an account that reflects her years of careful and insightful thinking about Sanum???."--Donald Pollock, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Textual maps, photos, charts. Pencilled underlinings to the first 13 pages. Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xx, 346 pp. Contents: Space & Time: Sanuma Spaces; Time as Space Organizer; Diachrony &Leadership; The Marriage-Go-Round; Sanuma Times; Names: Names under Erasure; For Name-Sakes; To Hunt a Name; Others: A Rumor on Stage; The Sanuma's Others; The Age of Gold & Misery; Epilogue.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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