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Life Among the Yanomami / Health Care International c/o John F. Peters.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the ClassroomPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442602694
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.089/98
LOC classification:
  • F2520.1.Y3 P47 1998eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich and well-rounded understanding of this famously isolated people. While considerable detail of traditional way of life is provided, particular attention is devoted to the realities of social change arising from initial exposure to missionaries (of whom the author was one) to the more recent pressures from mining and the intervention of government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Family and village life, health and health care, demography, politicization (that includes Yanomami criticism of Western Society), and on cultural survival are among the key issues explored by Peters-compelling issues for indigenous peoples the world over.
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Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich and well-rounded understanding of this famously isolated people. While considerable detail of traditional way of life is provided, particular attention is devoted to the realities of social change arising from initial exposure to missionaries (of whom the author was one) to the more recent pressures from mining and the intervention of government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Family and village life, health and health care, demography, politicization (that includes Yanomami criticism of Western Society), and on cultural survival are among the key issues explored by Peters-compelling issues for indigenous peoples the world over.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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