Faces of the Rainforest: The Yanomani (Photographs and journals by Valdir Cruz) - Hardcover

Valdir Cruz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576871371 ISBN 13: 9781576871379

Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

Faces of the Rainforest, Valdir Cruz's first monograph, is a prophetic portrait of a people on the brink of extinction. The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some 20 centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are one of the last remaining societies untouched by modernization, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of the Yanomami, as documented in Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney. Like Edward S. Curtis before him, Cruz's haunting images are made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is about to disappear off the face of the earth.

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Synopsis:

The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some twenty centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are the last remaining society untouched by modernisation, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of their people. Contextualising the plight of the Yanomami society with a narrative detailing the history of the culture, as well As Cruz's own journal entries, this prophetic and haunting portrait is made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is on the brink of extinction.

About this edition

• Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1576871371
• ISBN 13: 9781576871379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176