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. Governments and their subjects tend to regard them as primitive and not really part of their citizenry. Recent quarrels between the Salesian missionaries and Napoleon Chagnon have highlighted this debate. This book examines this dispute in detail and presents the views of the Salesians, New Tribes, and the Yanomami in response to outsiders' interpretations.
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...the book is fascinating...Salamone calls for cooperation among missionaries, anthropologists, and others so that the cause of the Yanomami can be furthered.>>>> (Barbara Burns Missiology: An International Review )
"...the book is fascinating...Salamone calls for cooperation among missionaries, anthropologists, and others so that the cause of the Yanomami can be furthered." (Barbara Burns Missiology: An International Review )
"...the book is fascinating...Salamone calls for cooperation among missionaries, anthropologists, and others so that the cause of the Yanomami can be furthered." (Barbara Burns Missiology: An International Review )
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Frank A. Salamone is Professor of Anthropology at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
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In 1993 Napoleon Chagnon--world-famous ethnographer of the Yanomami Indians--was forcibly expelled from Venezuela. If you happen to be seeking an articulate explanation of the events leading up to his deportation (as was I), you won't find it here. Frank Salamone, an
anthropologist and expert on missionary groups, sets out to resolve the dispute between Chagnon and the missionaries who were in some way responsible for his deportation. Unfortunately, the book is a copyeditor's nightmare--crawling with errors in spelling, syntax, grammar and punctuation, along with thousands of typographical mistakes which make it difficult to read and sometimes incomprehensible (e.g."Chagnon desires to behind this extraordinarily ugly discussion."). Most of the references cited aren't even included in the bibliography. Salamone himself is a pathetic writer, stumbling through a muddled summary of Yanomami ethnography and blurting out the lessons he learned during his ten-day visit to southern Venezuela. And in the end, the reader is left wondering what happened--the incidents that resulted in Chagnon's explusion are never revealed, and Salamone's final remarks are so tangled that you can only guess at what he's trying to say. The effect is that of a term paper written at 4 a.m. by a drunk and exhausted sophomore who doesn't know the difference between 'their' and 'there'. And although many Ph.D.'s probably don't--or don't care--the University Press of America should hire a proofreader who does.
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anthropology student loves this book,
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This review is from: The Yanomami and Their Interpreters (Hardcover)
Whoever the other guy that wrote a review of this book must be a drunken sophomore himself. I personally found this to be the most interesting book I read this year. Salamone is a fantastic author, and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Yanomami. If there are typos and such, that is not the fault of the author. Many of those errors occur at the publishers. A manuscript can come to the publisher in perfect condition, then get screwed up there. This is a great book by a well-established author and is well worth the price!
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