Into the Heart: An Amazonian Love Story: One Man's Pursuit of Love And Knowledge Among the Yanomama - Hardcover

Good, Kenneth; Chanoff, David

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9780241127926: Into the Heart: An Amazonian Love Story: One Man's Pursuit of Love And Knowledge Among the Yanomama

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ISBN 10: 0241127920 ISBN 13: 9780241127926

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1991

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Physical description: 349 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Summary: When Kenneth Good began his work with the Yanomama Indians, he planned to stay with them in the jungle for 15 months. Twelve years later he was still there. The tribe showed compassion and camaraderie in their everyday life. As Good integrated himself into the tribe and learnt their language, he built up a relationship with one of their women, Yarima. This book chronicles his experiences. Subject: Anthropology ; Biological / Physical anthropology ; Indigenous peoples South America. Social science / Minority Studies. Ethnologists - Venezuela - Biography - Amazon River Valley. Yanomamo Indians - Social life and customs.- Social conditions. Good, Kenneth Good, Yarima. Biography & autobiography. Other names: Chanoff, David. Other titles: Into the heart : an Amazonian love story. Genre: Autobiography, Illustrated. text.

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When Kenneth Good began his work with the Yanomama Indians, he planned to stay with them in the jungle for 15 months. 12 years later he was still there. The tribe described as violent, bloody and persistently aggressive, delighting in murder, living on hallucinogenic drugs and drinking the ashes of their dead, showed compassion and camaraderie in their everyday lives. As Good integrated himself into the tribe and learnt their language, one of their own women, Yarima, began to respond to him, first as a child watching a stranger, then as a betrothed young girl, then as his wife. Good was caught up in a harrowing life-or-death struggle to keep her. This is the story of how they overcame opposition, difficulties and danger from those around them to enable their love to survive. This account highlights the contrast between the primitive culture of the Yanomama - who have no written language, no system of numbers and have not yet invented the wheel - and the modern world of planes, cars and electricity. It is a testimony to the human ability to adapt to and accept a way of life as strange as life in another galaxy.

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