Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography by Campbell, Alan

Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415125567)

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Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography by Campbell, Alan

Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography

$200.00
Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography by Campbell, Alan

Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Alan Campbell
ISBN-10: 0415125561
ISBN-13: 9780415125567
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/17/1995
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.08w x 0.70d
By Alan Campbell
By Alan Campbell
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Alan Tormaid Campbell teaches Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapí (Polygon, 1990) and has been involved with the Wayapí Indians since 1974.

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