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  • Ritchie, Mark A.
     
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  • Yanomamo Indians -- Social conditions.
     
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  • Yanomamo mythology.
     
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  • Shamanism -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
     
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  • Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Social life and customs.
     
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    Spirit of the rainforest : a Yanomamö shaman's story / Mark Andrew Ritchie.
    by Ritchie, Mark A.
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    Chicago : Island Lake Press, 2000.
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  • Yanomamo Indians -- Social conditions.
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  • Yanomamo Indians -- Religion.
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  • Yanomamo mythology.
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  • Shamanism -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)
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  • Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Social life and customs.
  • ISBN: 
    0964695235
    9780964695238 (paperback)
    Description: 
    288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    Edition: 
    2nd ed.
    Contents: 
    Long story goes before every fight -- Beginning: split truth. It's never beautiful where you aren't wanted ; You are so brave ; Not every spirit is what he appears ; Our pain is not our spirits' fault ; We want you so much -- Middle: doesn't-grab-women. Father eagle never found his eaglet ; Blinded by lies ; Very nice word ; Pulling his eye down ; We can have both ways -- End: nobody's that stupid. They think we're animals ; Why don't you leave? ; Vengeance is mine ; Killers like me ; Epilogue: be good to her ; Author's addendum: so many of them are dead -- Appendix. 'Yanomamo: noble savages or Hobbesian brutes?" ; "Missionaries 1, anthropologists, 0 ; "Yanomamology, missiology, and anthropology" -- Glossary -- Family relations -- Legend of characters and locations -- Documentation.
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    The Yanomano of the Amazon - endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? [In this book, the author] speaks for his people. Jungleman provides ... accounts of life-or-death battles among his people - and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. [This book], the story of Jungleman is [a] powerful document.--Back cover.
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