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 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.

• 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"