Getting to Know Waiwai

An Amazonian Ethnography

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4491768
AutoresAntoinette M G A Winklerprins, Antoinette M Winklerprins (0000-0003-1076-9019), Alan Tormaid Campbell
Ano1996
Volume86
Fascículo3
Páginas471
Data de publicação1996-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/215514
OpenAlexW2060883638
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13

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

Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Archaeology · Biology · Ethnography · Geography · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology