The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman Kopenawa, Davi, and Bruce Albert. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. ISBN Leslie E. Sponsel Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology University of Hawai`i, Honolulu sponsel@www.doorway.ru, www.doorway.ruthor: Leslie E. Sponsel. · Formerly she worked at the BBC World Service as a Latin America analyst. The book: ' The Falling Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman ' is by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy, and published by the Berknap Press of Harvard University Press [ISBN ]. Donate. "The Falling Sky" follows him from his native village in the Northern Amazon to Brazilian cities and finally on transatlantic flights bound for European and American capitals. These travels constitute a shamanic critique of Western industrial society, whose endless material greed, mass violence, and ecological blindness contrast sharply with Yanomami cultural values/5(35).
The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest—a world where ancient indigenous. The Falling Sky, by the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and the French anthropologist Bruce Albert, takes its title from a creation myth of the Yanomami people, who live in the border region between Brazil and www.doorway.ru primordial world was crushed by the collapse of the sky, hurling its inhabitants into the underworld. The exposed "back" of the previous sky became the forest where the. Shamans dedicate themselves to taming the entities and forces that move the universe. They hold up the sky. The most well-known Yanomami shaman and leader, Davi Kopenawa, is the author of the book "The Falling Sky - words of a Yanomami shaman" (Harvard University Press, ) with French anthropologist Bruce Albert.
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert Selections from the Book. The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. In a close collaboration with anthropologist Bruce Albert, a friend since the s, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest. This opens in a new window. The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest—a world where ancient indigenous knowledge and shamanic traditions cope with the global geopolitics of an. Bruce Albert and Davi Kopenawa provide a vivid sense of this in The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence.
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