'Earth Eaters' and the Spirits of Omama: A Review of The Falling Sky. (23rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wright, Robin
• Is Part Of: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture. Volume 10:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 254
• Publication Date: 2016-05-23
• Subjects: prophecies -- shamanism -- cosmology; Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Religious aspects -- Periodicals; Ecology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Periodicals; 201.7705
• DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.v10i2.27278
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-4907

Abstract

Abstract : Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (trans. Nicholas Elliott and Allison Dundy; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), xvii + 622 pp. [First published as La chute du ciel: Paroles d'un chaman yanomami (Paris: Plon, 2010)], $39.95 (Harvard); $28.83, ISBN 978-0-674-72468-6.