Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography

by Alan Tormaid Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041512557X
• ISBN13: 9780415125574
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"