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Title: Jivaro by Michael J. Harner ISBN: 0-520-05065-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A "sexy" classic..
Comment: Harner's Jivaro is a very interesting book. I cannot attest to the ethnographic veracity of the text as some other reviewers, but I can speak to what I thought about the book. This book is one of the most fascinating ethnographies I have read. It is very "sexy": violence, drugs, death, decapitation, shrunken heads...edgy stuff. What utterly fascinated me was the description of how this state of affairs came about. Harner claims that head-hunting raids didn't take place, or at least not with the frequency as reported in this book until the introduction of firearms by the Spanish. At this point rival tibes were better able to kill each other, and violence increased. I found it all very interesting, and would recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: classic ethnography
Comment: This is a classic ethnography of the Shuar, the one that established the standard for all subsequent descriptions of the Shuar. I have done extensive field work with a Shuar related group and was impressed on how accurate Harner's account was, even though the group I worked with was separate in both time and space from the untsuri shuar. This is a must read for anyone interested in the ethnography of lowland South America.
Rating: 1
Summary: captures little of the sense of Shuar culture
Comment: The title is good -- the Shuar (Jivaro) indeed have a special reverence for sacred waterfalls -- but the rest of the book captures little of the true flavor of Shuar culture and character. (I spent several months among the Shuar many years ago.) As an example, Nunkui is the spirit of Earth when referred to as a living being, but the author refers to Nunkui as "a female crop fairy." Even if one does not speak Shuar, the relationship of the word "Nunkui" to the word "Nunka" (land or territory) should be obvious. There is much superficial observation in this book but very little true insight.
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Title: Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael J. Harner ISBN: 0195016491 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1973 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism by Robert B. Ekvall ISBN: 0881330523 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: June, 1983 List Price(USD): $11.50 |
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Title: A Sinhalese Village in Sri Lanka: Coping with Uncertainty by Victoria J. Baker ISBN: 0155051768 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 14 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon ISBN: 0155053272 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 15 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Netsilik Eskimo by Asen Balikci ISBN: 0881334359 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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