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A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds. (Louise Erdrich New York Times Book Review 2016-04-28)The Falling Sky is several things. It is the autobiography of Davi Kopenawa, one of Brazil’s most prominent and eloquent indigenous leaders. It is the most vivid and authentic account of shamanistic philosophy I have ever read. It is also a passionate appeal for the rights of indigenous people and a scathing condemnation of the damage wrought by missionaries, gold miners, and white people’s greed. The footnotes alone harbor monographs on Yanomami botany and zoology, mythology, ritual, and history. Most of all, The Falling Sky is an elegy to oral tradition and the power of the spoken word… Kopenawa’s elaboration of shamanic concepts goes beyond ethnography and becomes a new genre of native philosophical inquiry. When an indigenous narrator this articulate produces an original exegesis of his own worldview, anthropology and anthropologists have become almost obsolete… Like his ancestors, whose voices will continue to echo in shamans’ songs after his death, Davi Kopenawa has made sure that his own powerful words will be preserved. (Glenn Shepard, Jr. New York Review of Books 2014-11-06)Anthropologists and other specialists will find much to relish in this beautifully crafted evocation of Yanomami culture and philosophy. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews taped in native language, it is enriched by almost a hundred pages of footnotes, ethnobiological and geographic glossaries, bibliographical references, detailed indexes and, last but not least, an essay by Bruce Albert on how he wrote the book. While the book resonates with current Western metaphysical angst about finitude, it is written principally as a long shamanic chant that opens up a multitude of interior journeys and provides a new consciousness of the world as a whole… The Yanomami have suffered the effects of deadly epidemics, land dispossession and aggressive missionary evangelism. The resulting break in the flow of knowledge between older and younger generations, a lack of communication between indigenous and nonindigenous interlocutors, and a general loss of connection with the natural environment, are common problems. Despite remarkable political gains in the past thirty years, including the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2007, a health and social crisis is deepening within many indigenous communities. As The Falling Sky makes plain, this crisis is rooted in the symbolic violence exercised by the dominant society, which fails to recognize the value (rather than just the right) of being different and of living in a distinct human collectivity… It is, above all, a splendid story told by an exceptional man, who barely knows how to read and write. That the story was written down by an ethnographer who elected not to adjust his research to the canons of academia adds to its importance. The use of the first-person singular to tell the tale involves a fusion of authorial voices, a sign of mutual recognition and true friendship if ever there was one; it lends a musical quality to the resulting ‘heterobiography.’ Through their sonorous presence, the numerous beings evoked in the shamanic chant usher in the fertility of life as shamans see and feel it. What better way to entice readers away from everyday forgetfulness than to invite them to hear the forest’s vast and timeless symphony? (Laura Rival Times Literary Supplement 2014-07-11)One of the first and best autobiographical narratives by an indigenous lowland Amazonian…The book is a mix of autobiography, history, personal philosophy, and cultural criticism of whites for their destruction of the world, worship of the material, and lack of spirituality and vitality…The book is not only finely detailed and full of challenging philosophical points, it also contains much humor…Ultimately, it is Kopenawa’s voice that tells us who he is, who his people are, and who we are to them. It is complex and nuanced; I’d go so far as to call The Falling Sky a literary treasure: invaluable as academic reading, but also a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence. (Daniel L. Everett New Scientist 2013-11-18)Kopenawa provides a fascinating glimpse into his life as well as into Yanomami cultural beliefs and practices, setting his story against the various threats the Yanomami people and their forest have faced since the 1960s...Kopenawa's story is eloquent, engaging, and thought-provoking, exuding heartfelt wisdom. This extraordinary and richly detailed work is an outstanding explication of the Yanomami worldview as well as a plea to all people to respect and preserve the rain forest. (Elizabeth Salt Library Journal (starred review) 2013-10-01)This engaging text, the autobiography of Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa, translated with some prefatory remarks, appendixes, notes, and additional biographical comments by anthropologist Albert, offers a valuable insider perspective on a much-studied Amazonian society, with rich details on myth and religious practices, including shamanic initiation. Albert frames this story with a half-century-long history of exploitation by Westerners, ranging from anthropologists to government officials and developers. Kopenawa’s direct experiences with, and assessment of, his white interlocutors is often charged with a well-justified anger, but through the course of his personal history the need for mutual respect and, where appropriate, collaboration is likewise made evident. The text offers a trenchant critique of the characterization of the Yanomami as humanity’s primordial ‘fierce people,’ highlighting the beauty and virtues of these people while reminding readers of Western cultural and ecological destruction in the Amazon (an exceptionally virulent brand of fierceness). (C. J. MacKenzie Choice 2014-05-01)I have just read your manuscript and am enormously impressed by this work of such powerful methodological interest and prodigious documentary richness. It wholly captivates the reader yet is simultaneously so complex, raising so many questions. (Claude Lévi-Strauss, letter to Bruce Albert, July 10, 2006)The words of the Yanomami shamans are powerful: they conjure up another world responsible for this one. Davi Kopenawa proves it for us. Not only do his words give us an unparalleled experience of the life of the Yanomami, but his moving description of their struggle to save the forest and themselves from destruction by the whites reveals the modern tragedy of indigenous peoples in ways we never imagined. (Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago)
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Davi Kopenawa is a shaman and an internationally known spokesperson of the Brazilian Yanomami.
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Hardcover: 648 pages
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (November 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674724682
ISBN-13: 978-0674724686
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6.2 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review:
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This is an astonishing book, a gripping story, and a poetic revelation of an entirely different world view than our own. Every single page sparkles with provocative meditations on the impact that industrial societies have on the environment and the role of Yanomami shamans in protecting it for the sake of all humanity. “The shamans do not only repel the dangerous things to protect the inhabitants of the forest. They also work to protect the white people who live under the same sky. This is why if [the shamans] die, the white people will remain alone and helpless on their ravaged land... If they persist in devastating the forest, all the unknown and dangerous beings that inhabit and defend it will take revenge....The sky, which is as sick from the white people's fumes as we are, will start moaning and begin to break apart" (pp. 404-405).The authorship of this gem is unprecedented: rather than being yet another in a long list of studies of the Yanomami written by outsiders, “The Falling Sky†is the first book narrated by a Yanomami author, Davi Kopenawa. No other treatise offers this insider‘s perspective; no other narrative takes us so intimately into the confidences of the Yanomami people; no other account so dramatically unravels the extraordinary complexity of Yanomami philosophy. None of our self-critiques of what our industrial societies are doing to the environment rings quite so authentically as Davi Kopenawa's, written as it is from a point of view that is unique, startling, and riveting. Besides his intriguing explanations of Yanomami beliefs, Kopenawa is also a sort of indigenous anthropologist studying Western society, turning the tables on who studies whom. As perceptive as many Western anthropologists have been, none has the vantage point that Kopenawa does as someone who grew up Yanomami and, based on later intercultural experiences, learned how to translate Yanomami concepts to foreigners in a way that no one else has ever succeeded in doing. He says, “I did not learn to think about the things of the forest by setting my eyes on paper skins. I saw them for real by drinking my elders’ breath of life… I had my account drawn in the white people’s language so it could be heard far from the forest. Maybe they will finally understand my words… Then their thoughts about us will cease being so dark and twisted and maybe they will even wind up losing the will to destroy us. If so, our people will stop dying in silence, unbeknownst to all, like turtles hidden on the forest floor†(p. 23).Only someone with an ethnocentric bias, like Alice Friedemann, who reviewed this book without even reading it (!), would so categorically dismiss such a ground-breaking book or urge potential readers to buy an entirely different book, written by an American academic whose anti-Yanomami biases have been criticized for decades by numerous commentators. Native voices have been silenced for centuries by repressive colonial powers: did Alice really have to add insult to injury by censoring “The Falling Sky� Isn’t it time we just stop listening to our own babbling and, for once, hear what a survivor from one of the last remote tribes has to say? She pretends to offer apologies to Kopenawa as she goes on a witch hunt after Bruce Albert, the anthropologist who interviewed Kopenawa and helped him prepare the book for publication, but her mea culpa rings hollow, since she advises skipping the book altogether. More turtles may die unbeknownst to all…For correctives to Alice Friedemann’s warped review, readers should check out the pointed replies to her post offered by professionals who are familiar with the Yanomami. It is especially worthwhile to read Bruce Albert’s refutation of her unwarranted attacks on him and his defense of Davi Kopenawa; unfortunately, his remarks are buried in the “Comments†link under Alice’s review, but readers can access it through the appropriate button.
Read a couple of books on this "subject" This is as opaque as the rest. But interesting. I'm not an unbeliever, just a wonderer.
Having just published a book on shamans of the Northwest Amazon, Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), at almost the same time as Bruce Albert/Davi Kopenawa's book, I wish to express my tremendous admiration for this book. I know how difficult it can be to be a shaman's apprentice and to express in a foreign language (French, then English) the poetry and spiritual sensibilities of a complex and world-renowned shaman such as Davi. Bruce Albert has been working with them since at least the early 1970s. Yes, he worked in Catrimani, but his data are not the sort that Saffirio was writing about. Saffirio was Chagnon's student; he was a missionary and student of Anthropology. Today, he works as a parish priest in California. Bruce Albert has never left the Yanomami. He was one of the original founding members of the Commission to Create the Yanomami Park; he was instrumental in the struggle to create the Yanomami Indian Park. He has dedicated his entire career to understanding the Yanomami way of life. He debunked the false analysis made by Chagnon of the Yanomami as a "fierce people", and this book is a major demonstration of how Yanomami shamans, and political leaders, see the world of the Whites. If he criticizes "Shaky", Davi does so for a very good reason. I request that the comments made by the first "reviewer" "ANNE FRIEDEMANN" be removed from Amazon-com's review of the book. They are not comments about the book; they are ad hominem attacks against Bruce Albert which are not worth a penny.
This Yanomami treatise is a truly unique and awesome masterpiece. Like never before, it allows the reader the very special privilege of beginning to enter, understand, and appreciate the complex and profound mental and spiritual realms of the Yanomami in their sacred forest habitat. It reveals their intellectually rich and complex cosmology and symbolism as well as their mysterious shamanic rituals. The devastating processes and consequences of Western contact are also addressed through the unique perspective of the Yanomami shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa. Based on his observations during travels in Brazil since 1958 and abroad since 1989, this book also offers a fascinating and devastating Yanomami critique of aspects of the West including some of its social and ecological pathologies like pollution and poverty.The extraordinary friendship and collaboration between Kopenawa and French anthropologist Bruce Albert gradually developed over several decades. Their book is the product of 93 hours of interviews, most conducted during 1989-1992 and 1993-2001. Albert transcribed the recordings into over 1,000 pages, all in the Yanomami language. Albert frames the main text, which is exclusively the most careful translation of Kopenawa's own thoughts, with supplemental material reflecting only the very highest quality of scholarship and science. This is all solidly grounded in Albert's regular fieldwork in basic and applied anthropology with the Yanomami since March 1975.This tome is certainly by far one of the most important and illuminating books I have ever read in my four decades in anthropology. It is destined to become a classic in the history of anthropology, and, more importantly, a benchmark in the Yanomami's own history. In the outside world this book should be relevant not only to serious students of the Yanomami, but to anyone interested in the Amazon forests and its peoples, shamanism, anthropology of religion, culture contact and change, and advocacy and human rights, or cultural, historical, political, and spiritual ecologies, among many other subjects.
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