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Title: The Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon ISBN: 0-15-505327-2 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 15 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a different culture [in danger]
Comment: this book is a good introduction to the Yanomamo people of the Amazon rainforest, in Venezuela & Brazil. There's so much literature on these people; this book really is just an introduction. One thing Chagnon communicates very well in it is how terribly tragic he thinks what's happening to them now is, with western influence, especially in the last chapter. Anyway the way he writes is great.
Rating: 4
Summary: Informative but controversial
Comment: This bestseller ethnography is praised for its detail; Chagnon is praised for unprecedented geneological and geographical data. Chagnon has spent many decades living with these people and collecting data. Cultural ecology, subsistence and political organization seem to be his strengths, but the text is exceedingly masculine. It can be criticized for ignorning women, those with less power, and power differential. The author's depiction of the Yanomamo as warlike and fierce is argued as overdone and jeapardizing of the wellbeing of the Yanomamo. Prior to Chagnon they were a mostly uncontacted people and since they have been enculturated, devastated by mining, and have lost respect due to their fierce reputation. Very thought provoking, informative and controversial, this 260 page ethnography is a must read for anyone interested in the field of anthropology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another world is revealed...
Comment: I am a graduating student of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon who was assigned to read this book for a Cultural Anthropology class. Much to my surprise, this book has become a real page-turner!
I never thought I'd have a hard time putting down a textbook. Chagnon's insightful, and more importantly, personalized account of his experiences living among an Amazonian tribe is riveting. He is graphic and provides the kind of realistic detail that is rarely encountered in a textbook - at least none that I've come across so far. He pulls no punches, either in his descriptions of the cultural mores of the Yanomamo, or relating his own struggles and disagreements with his anthropological colleagues.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about other cultures, and what motivates humans to behave as they do. This is not just a book for college students or those working in the Anthropology field. I am a Business Management major, but I find the insights this book gives on the human condition to be invaluable. It is always important to be able to see the world through other people's eyes, and Napoleon Chagnon makes that possible through this book.
What better recommendation can I give, but that I will definitely not be selling this book back to my college bookstore, but rather adding it to my personal library!
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Title: The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi by Richard B. Lee ISBN: 0155063332 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 04 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Forest People by Colin Turnbull ISBN: 0671640992 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Tiwi of North Australia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Charles William Merton Hart, Hart Charles William M, Arnold R. Pilling ISBN: 0030120195 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors by Karl G. Heider ISBN: 0155051733 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney ISBN: 0393322750 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 14 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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