Yanomami and Their Interpreters - Fierce People Or Fierce Interpreters?

Informationen zum Autor Frank A. Salamone is Professor of Anthropology at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Klappentext Scholars, especially Napoleon Chagnon, have portrayed the Yanomami as fierce people. Yanomami themselves resent that portrayal and state that they are no more fierce than those who label them. Moreover, a number of scholars argue that such a portrayal has had dire consequences for these Indian people. Zusammenfassung Scholars! especially Napoleon Chagnon! have portrayed the Yanomami as fierce people. Yanomami themselves resent that portrayal and state that they are no more fierce than those who label them. Moreover! a number of scholars argue that such a portrayal has had dire consequences for these Indian people.

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• Authors: Frank A Salamone, Frank A. Salamone, Salamone Frank A.
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780761806547
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-0654-7
• No. of pages: 148
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Brazil, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms