Yanomami: A Forest People
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Yanomami: A Forest People
By (Author) W. Milliken
By (author) B. Albert
By (author) G. G. Gomez
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew Publishing
1st February 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
306.08998
Physical Properties
Paperback
179
Width 155mm, Height 245mm
Description
A highly readable book about the remarkable relationship between a forest people and their environment - the watershed between the Brazilian Amazon and the Venezuelan Orinoco. It provides a fascinating insight into their culture and intricate knowledge of plants, animals and the ecology of the environment in which they live.
Reviews
The Yanomami are a nonstate people of some 20,000 living in numerous villages of Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazonia who speak several dialects of what seems to be one language isolate. Various works on their ethnography, demography, health, and territory already exist. This beautifully illustrated book constitutes a very valuable contribution to their ethnobotany.--William Bale "Economic Botany" (7/1/2002 12:00:00 AM)
