num_pages: 382
description: A biography of Helena Valero, a white woman who was captured 1937 as a young girl by the Yanomami, an indigenous tribe living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. While living with the Yanomami for about two decades, Valero married twice and gave birth to four children (three sons and one daughter). She escaped in 1956 to what she refers to as "the white man" in the country of her birth. After rejection by her family and living in poverty at a mission, Valero chose to return to life with the Yanomami.Valero recounted her life's story to Italian biologist Ettore Biocca, who published the account in 1965. In the book, Valero tells of life in the forest: hunter-gatherer living in the Amazon; the customs, lore, rituals, and observances of Yanomami culture; and the relationships and wars between individuals, families, and tribes
language: English
title: Yanoáma: The Narrative of a White Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians
titlecomplete: Yanoáma: The Narrative of a White Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians
genres: Biography, Anthropology, History, Italian Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 96
publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co