Spirit of the rainforest
Subtitle: a Yanomamö shaman's story
By: Mark Andrew Ritchie.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Island Lake Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Yanomamo Indians -- Social conditions.; Yanomamo Indians -- Religion.; Yanomamo mythology.; Shamanism -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia); Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Social life and customs.
Description: The Yanomano of the Amazon - endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? [In this book, the author] speaks for his people. Jungleman provides ... accounts of life-or-death battles among his people - and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. [This book], the story of Jungleman is [a] powerful document.--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index.