Linda Rabben

Brazil's Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization (eBook, PDF)

The Yanomami and the Kayapo

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Produktbeschreibung

The Yanomami and Kayapó, two indigenous groups of the Amazon rainforest, have become internationally known through their dramatic and highly publicized encounters with civilization. Both groups struggle to transcend internal divisions, preserve their traditional culture, and defend their land from depredation, while seeking to benefit from the outside world, yet their prospects for the future seem very different. Placing each group in its historical context, Linda Rabben examines the relationship of the Kayapó and Yanomami to Brazilian society and the wider world. She combines academic research with a wide variety of sources, including celebrated leaders Paulinho Payakan and Davi Kopenawa, to assess how each group has responded to outside incursions.

This book is a substantially revised edition of Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapó, and the Onslaught of Civilization, originally published in 1998, and includes a new chapter examining the controversy for anthropologists studying the Yanomami following the publication of Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado. Another new chapter focuses on the resurgence of Northeastern indigenous groups previously thought extinct. The magnitude and significance of indigenous movements has increased greatly, and a new generation of Brazilian indigenous leaders, proficient in Portuguese, is participating in the national political arena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295804521
• Artikelnr.: 44785413

Autorenporträt

Linda Rabben is associate research professor in the Anthropology Department of the University of Maryland. She worked on human rights issues as a researcher, editor, writer, and activist for more than twenty-five years. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology and Latin American studies from Cornell University in 1981. She is the author of Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present and Future of Sanctuary (Left Coast Press, 2011), Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners (Quixote Center, distributed by University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), and Brazil's Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization (University of Washington Press, 2004), an expanded edition of Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapó and the Onslaught of Civilization (Pluto Press, 1998); and translator of Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes, by Gomercindo Rodrigues (University of Texas Press, 2007). Her articles on human rights have appeared in periodicals including The Nation, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and Discovery Channel Magazine. For her writing on Brazil she won the Spann Memorial Essay Prize of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation and a Catholic Press Association award. She served on the American Anthropological Association's Committee for Human Rights, the Brazilian Studies Association's executive committee and its human rights task force, and the Academic Freedom and Human Rights Committee of the Latin American Studies Association. In 2013 she was appointed a faculty fellow at American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene
2. In Search of the Other
3. The People from Between the Waters
4. Payakan: A Cautionary Tale
5. Yanomami Apocalypse
6. Davi
7. Savage Anthropology
8. Emerging Indians
9. Fit for What?
Notes
Bibliography
Index