Yanomami and Their Interpreters: Fierce People or Fierce Interpreters?

By Frank A. Salamone

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761806547
• ISBN13: 9780761806547
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.5"