Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo, and the Onslaught of Civilisation [Paperback]

Linda Rabben (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1998

Indigenous to the Amazon, the Kayapo and the Yanomami are internationally known through their dramatic and highly publicized encounters with "civilization". Anthropologist Linda Rabben places each group in its historical and evolutionary context to examine these tribes' relationship to Brazilian society and the wider world. 10 Illustrations.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: University of Washington Press (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0295977450
• ISBN-13: 978-0295977454
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,863,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Linda Rabben is an anthropologist, human rights advocate and author or editor of six books on human rights-related subjects. She has worked for organizations such as Amnesty International, the Rainforest Foundation, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and RefugeeWorks. She did ethnographic fieldwork in Brixton, South London, UK, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she acquired proficiency in the samba. Her work as a writer, editor, researcher and public speaker has taken her to Mozambique, France, Mexico, the Netherlands and other countries. She has also traveled much in Iowa. After spending more than 20 years focusing on Brazil, she became interested in refugee, asylum and immigration issues in the mid-1990s. Her most recent book, "Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present and Future of Sanctuary," grew out of that involvement. A proud member of the National Writers Union, she writes accessible, straightforward prose for a "crossover" audience of students, engaged scholars, activists, policymakers, lawyers, refugees, immigrants and lovers of social history.

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This review is from: Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo, and the Onslaught of Civilisation (Paperback)

I used this book for my research paper. I was writing about the Kayapo and their struggle to protect their habitat in the Amazon. This book gave me a very good summary of the history of them and many issues involved in their struggle. The author, Linda Rabben covers them precisely and logically. I recommend this book to all.