Hungry lightning : notes of a woman anthropologist in Venezuela /
A young student of archaeology receives an offer she can't refuse, the chance to live among the Pume, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro Ana, the author and the principal researcher study a vanis...
| Основен автор: | Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albuquerque, N.M. :
University of New Mexico Press,
℗♭1997.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22603 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Hungry lightning. |
| Резюме: |
A young student of archaeology receives an offer she can't refuse, the chance to live among the Pume, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro Ana, the author and the principal researcher study a vanishing way of life in which cash money, the written word, automobiles, and airplanes are rare and frightening intrusions. Yu, adopted into a Pume family, provides an informal personal account of her two years' stay, describing the daily cycles of birth, growth, romance, sickness, healing, and death among the villagers. Yu's journal entries seek to present, through a young American's eyes, a sketch of her Pume family, their heroic struggle to survive in a changing world, and the power, humor, and mystery of the Pume way of life. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238). |
| ISBN: |
0585187568 9780585187563 |