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Title: Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (Kodansha Globe) by Helena Valero, Ettore Biocca, Luigi Cocco, Philip Turner ISBN: 1-56836-108-4 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: An incredible first hand story of a world probably gone forever. In the 1930's a White Amazon river trader's daughter is kidnapped by the Yanoama, a tribe of Amazonian Indians. This pre-teen is adopted by the tribe and assimilates into the Stone Age culture over the succeeding twenty years. The lifestyle, experiences, and culture are fascinating and bizarre. Helena Valero never forgot her roots. She eventually escaped along with one of her children to a Salesion mission. Her original white family rejected her. She lived her life doing menial work at the mission, making sure her child received an education at the mission school. She had had a hard life in the forest, beaten, and bartered, but effected her own rescue only to be rejected by her original family and told to get a job and start supporting herself and child. At the mission she was looked upon as just another native inhabitant trying to acquire western ways. I am a little suspicious of this story because there seems to be a total lack of notoriety. If a Helena Valero were to walk out of the Amazonian forest today she would be deluged with book and movie deals. I believe the truth of the story comes out in the details. The facts of her story and her intimate knowledge of tribal life seem to bear out the truth.
Rating: 5
Summary: A World Apart From Civilization as We Know It
Comment: Yanoama tells the story of a young girls coming of age in a world apart from civilization as we know it. Helena Valero was taken from her parents by the native Yanoama Indians of Venezuela while a preteen girl. She struggled to learn their language and strongly gave her own opinions to those who whished to keep her as their property. Helena lived on her own in the tropical rainforest, was bitten and chased by large snakes, survived poisoned arrows, beatings, and starvation. Her will to survive above all else kept her alive. The Yanoama are what we would call primitive peoples who practice indocanibalism, take more than one wife, wear no clothes and practice rituals that seem unreal to people of the "civilized world". This is the true story of Helenas capture and eventual escape. Life in the rainforest was not east for Helena along the Rio Negro, but as she grew older and had children her resolve strengthened to survive and escape with those whom she loved into a better life where the Yanoaman tribes would not constantly be threatening to kill them. While this is an excellent source for anthropology it is more important as the documentation of the human will to survive.
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting comparison to other books on this subject.
Comment: I liked this book! After reading other anthropological works that mainly concentrate on the male aspect of tribal living, this book shows the other side of the coin.
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Title: Tales of the Yanomami : Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest by Jacques Lizot ISBN: 0521406722 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 02 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Into The Heart : One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami by Kenneth Good, David Chanoff ISBN: 0673982327 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 07 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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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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Title: The Hacienda : A Memoir by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran ISBN: 0316816884 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Faces of the Rainforest: The Yanomami by Valdir Cruz, Vicki Goldberg, Trudie Styler, Kenneth R. Good ISBN: 1576871371 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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