The Yanomami and Their Interpreters: Fierce People or Fierce Interpreters?

by Frank A. Salamone

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761806547
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/27/1997
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.66(w) x 8.72(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Frank A. Salamone is Professor of Anthropology at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.

Editorial Reviews

...the book is fascinating...Salamone calls for cooperation among missionaries, anthropologists, and others so that the cause of the Yanomami can be furthered.

Missiology: An International Review - Barbara Burns

...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 "

From the Publisher

...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