The falling sky
words of a Yanomami shaman
- ISBN: 9780674292130
- Editorial: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 648
- Idiomas: Inglés
A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon.
A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples' rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.
Becoming Other
Drawn Words
The First Shaman
The Xapiri's Gaze
The Animal Ancestors
The Initiation
Spirits' Houses
Image and Skin
The Sky and Forest
II. Metal Smoke
Outsider Images
First Contacts
The Mission
Becoming a White Man?
The Road
Dreaming the Forest
Earth Eaters
Cannibal Gold
III. The Falling Sky
Talking to White People
Stone Houses
Merchandise Love
In the City
From One War to Another
The Flowers of Dream
The Spirit of the Forest
The Shamans' Death
Foreword by Bill McKibben.
