Getting to Know Waiwai by Alan Campbell
Living with the Wayapi, and their charismatic leader Waiwai, is a serious adventure. It is demanding, and can turn dangerous in a moment. The environment is a difficult one, but beautiful and baffling in its richness. And the job of learning about the people is like a journey without end. Alan Campbell tells the story of these people, and of the time he spent with them, in an imaginative, beautifully written account which looks back from a century into the future to relate a way of life that is being destroyed. In doing so, he addresses important and complex issues in current anthroplogical theory in a way which makes them accessible without sacrificing any of their subtlety.
Alan Tormaid Campbell teaches Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapí (Polygon, 1990) and has been involved with the Wayapí Indians since 1974.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415125574 |
| ISBN 10 | 041512557X |
| Title | Getting to Know Waiwai |
| Author | Alan Campbell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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