Bibliograph

Makuna, portrait of an Amazonian people, Kaj Århem ; photographs by Diego Samper

Type

Label

Makuna, portrait of an Amazonian people, Kaj Århem ; photographs by Diego Samper

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Makuna

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38595412

Responsibility statement

Kaj Århem ; photographs by Diego Samper

Sub title

portrait of an Amazonian people

Summary

The Makuna of eastern Colombia inhabit an Amazonian rain forest teeming with plant and animal life that provides them not only with a livelihood but also with cultural inspiration that infuses their daily life and frequent ritual performances. In full-color photographs and an evocative text, Diego Samper and Kaj Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose cultural future is being jeopardized by outsiders' destruction of their lands

Table Of Contents

1. Coming home : The mind's eye -- 2. The Makuna world : Peoples of the Vaupés ; The Makuna ; The resilience of tradition -- 3. The land : Rivers of hunger, rivers of plenty ; Enchanted forest ; Lessons of a shaman -- 4. The long house : The daily round ; Riches of the house ; Sacred space -- 5. Making a living : Children of the plant mother ; Natural affines ; Forest fruit ; Food shamanism ; The Makuna way -- 6. The dance of the spirits : Spirits of the dead, source of life -- 7. The threat : Cerro Rojo: a gold mining town ; Eyes of the spirits ; Amazonian apocalypse

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