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This memoir is the culmination of a long collaboration between Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman from northern Brazil's rain forest, and French anthropologist Albert (research director, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris), who spent many years among the Yanomami. Kopenawa provides a fascinating glimpse into his life as well as into Yanomami cultural beliefs and practices, setting his story against the various threats the Yanomami people and their forest have faced since the 1960s—highway construction, a g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More