Book Description
Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology--questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy--one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios--as its starting point, this book draws readers into not only reflecting on but refashioning the very heart and soul of the discipline. It is both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controversy available and an innovative and searching assessment of the current state of anthropology.
The Yanomami controversy came to public attention through the publication of Patrick Tierney's best-selling book, Darkness in El Dorado, in which he accuses James Neel, a prominent geneticist who belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as Napoleon Chagnon, whose introductory text on the Yanomami is perhaps the best-selling anthropological monograph of all time, of serious human rights violations. This book identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and raises deeper, structural questions about the discipline. A portion of the book is devoted to a unique roundtable in which important scholars on different sides of the issues debate back and forth with each other. This format draws readers into deciding, for themselves, where they stand on the controversy's--and many of anthropology's--central concerns.
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By far the most important book on the controversy.......2005-01-24
In 2000 a controversy exploded around numerous, diverse, and very serious allegations about violations of professional ethics and abuses of human rights made in a book by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. The present book edited by Dr. Robert Borofsky critically examines the fallout from Tierney's book. This second book is by far the most thorough, penetrating, balanced, and fair assessment of the controversy which is easily the ugliest scandal in the entire history of anthropology. The editor, and all of the six authors who contribute to a series of round table discussions and debates, are to be commended for their constructive approach to this controversy, unlike a few others elsewhere who persist in spreading as smoke screens misinformation, disinformation, and, just plain lies, even in various scientific journals, books, and organizations. Borofsky most perceptively and skillfully provides the broader background, context, implications, and ramifications regarding the controversy, including the AAA Task Force on Darkness in El Dorado and other reactions. Numerous very attractive and meaningful pedagogical devices are included so that the book can be most useful in many different courses on a wide range of topics. As promised on the back cover and elsewhere in the book, "All of the royalties from this book will be donated to helping the Yanomami improve their health care." This is an unprecedented, historic, and revolutionary book which may well contribute to some serious soul searching in anthropology and stimulate some positive transformations in the profession. This book should be read by every instructor and student in anthropology. For more background see http://www.publicanthropology.org.
Dr. Leslie E. Sponsel, Professor, Anthropology, University of Hawai`i
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A modern coming-of-age novel about a boy's struggle for survival in a lush and corrupting world that each day grows more seductive and more lethal.
New York's Lower East Side, 1978. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit reaches its breaking point, she seeks sanctuary with one of her clients, aging billionaire Ogden C. Osborne. Less than twenty-four hours later, she and Finn have been dropped into a world more savage than anything in National Geographic, more cutthroat than anything New York's grimy downtown streets have to offer-the exclusive rural community of Vlyvalle, New Jersey.
In this golden playground for the super-rich, they find a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne's empire. Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He's living a twisted approximation of the American dream-and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking.
But in Vlyvalle, social climbing is a blood sport. Even on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life-on an island in the middle of Osborne's private lake, naked and high with Osborne's bewitching granddaughter Maya-someone is watching him from the depths of the forest...and laughing. Soon, Finn is tangled in a web of secrets and betrayals so bizarre and so dangerous that getting out starts to look even harder than getting in.
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A Unique Page-Turner.......2007-03-14
All of the characters were completely likeable and not at all one-dimensional. Wittenborn takes the (jaded) knowledge and experience of living in NYC and applies it to Finn's personality, which makes him different than the other kids in Vlyvalle, which would naturally spark an interest in him, and he comes off as extremely likeable to everyone (even the reluctant Dwayne). Wittenborn's portrayal of Bryce was brilliant right through to the very end. I enjoyed spending time in this strange community, though it wouldn't have made a difference if this happened in the late 70s or today.
The plot had lots of twists and turns that caught me offguard. I really enjoyed this book.
A great read!.......2006-08-21
This book had me captivated from start to finish--couldn't put it down! I was continously surprised at the twists and turns the author presented, yet found them all compelling and believable. It was intruiging, twisted, sexy, and fun. Loved the plot development, setting, and characters. It was juicy enough to be a great Beach Book, yet intelligent and sensitive and substantial, unlike some of the shallow and cheesy Chick Lit books I've been grabbing for the beach this summer!
Fierce People.......2005-09-07
A really fun read. A good plot with interesting details. It would make a great movie! Loved the creepy guy. Loved the psych twists. Loved the examination of values. Loved the ending. Funny dialogue made me laugh outloud! Felt like I knew these people. Right on target with the drug use and all that goes with it. Just a well researched, carefully constructed, entertaining and also thoughtful book.
light reading........2005-01-27
Fierce People
By Dirk Wittenborn
Osbourne stunned me when he recited from one of my father's books. '"A small, primitive tribe in the remote corners of Amazonia who offers us a unique glimpse into what it means to be human."'
Osbourne blew his nose again and chuckled. "Vlyvalle without money."
Living under his mother's refuge from her parents, fifteen-year-old Finn's only wish is to spend the summer in Africa studying the Yonomamö tribe of Indians, or "Fierce People," with his anthropologist father he'd only read about. But Finn's dream is ruined when he's caught buying coke in his desperate attempt to calm his addicted mother, Liz, before his only enemies at the time, his grandparents, arrive. Determined to become a normal family, Liz accepts a favor from an old billionaire friend, Ogden C. Osbourne. Osbourne allows them to live in the guesthouse in the small town he's turned into an oasis. In Osbourne's exotic world of wealth, Finn and his mother meet people that even the Yonomamö tribe would fear. While Finn's mother tries to get her life back on track trying to overcome her addictions and win a place in society, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's granddaughter, Maya, and becomes friends with her older brother, Bryce. Finn even befriends Osbourne himself, because of common interest, and common hate. Soon after they make a cozy reputation in the town, a lurid chain of events start to happen in Vlyvalle, and the oasis doesn't appear as glamorous as it once seemed.
Fierce People is a novel knee deep in lies and betrayal that teaches you that wealth isn't always what it seems. As enjoyable as the novel was, it's pace was too jumpy. At one point in the book you would read for about 25 pages, and all of the sudden a dramatic death would occur, and another 25 pages later, you were at plateau. Although the dull parts came and went, Dirk Wittenborn really managed to make this book a page-turner.
Near the end, there was a lot of over plotting, allowing you to be more prepared and less astonished for the twisted ending. There was the cliché revealing of the antagonist's malicious intent, followed by the change of plans, just like most other suspense novels. Reading this was really a let down for the book, because the author could have moved the book in a different direction, adding the element of surprise.
Also, the timing in the story was completely inconsistent. The author began the story setting the time in the early 70's, but as you read later on, they're drinking Diet Coke, a product which was released in the early 80's. After the first 50 pages, you forget anything about the era, and just assume its in present day, for there is no surprise to the characters when technology, that at the time would be considered modern, comes up.
Overall, I would give this book 3 and half out of 5 stars. The first half of the book was witty and entertaining, but when you got to the second half, it was a bit raunchy and obscure. I would recommend this book to people looking for a long car ride novel, for its good for the time being, but its not necessarily something you're going to want to purchase in hard cover.
Fierce Black Humour...but wronged and misplaced.......2003-07-02
I think Mr Wittenborn has potential...he can write funnily and fiercely at the same time.But I think he should be better documented on an historical period (the late seventies) not exactly shrouded in the mists of time.And he should restrain his taste for the unpleasant: that is not funny, and there are some things I strongly feel we should not make fun about, like the abuse against minors and disabled people.
Book Description
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995.
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Yanomami speak out against Chagnon's work.......2006-10-24
Although an interesting read, it would be so because it is filled with false information. Davi Kopenawa Yanomami claims not only did Chagnon misrepresent the Yanomamo, but also offered them gifts to fight among themselves so he could take pictures and record the sounds of the fight. In a 2001 interview with Janet Chernela he says the following: "To repeat, Chagnon is not a good friend of our relatives. He lived there, but he acted against other relatives. He had a lot of pans. I remember the pans....When he arrived at the village, and called everyone together, he said 'Whoever is the most courageous will earn more pans. If youkill ten more people I will pay more. If you kill only two, I will pay less.'... This isn't good. This kills. Children cried; fathers, mothers, cried. Only Chagnon was happy. Because in his book, he says we are fierce. We are garbage. The book says this; I saw it. I have the book. He earned a name there, WATUPARI. It means king vulture- that eats decaying meat. ... He ordered the Yanomami to fight. He never spoke about what he was doing.
The purpose of an ethnography is to document, not to fill in gaps to make something more interesting to read.
cheaper than at the college book store.......2006-02-24
This book was in the same quality as if i would have bought it at the college book store, but about $10.00 cheaper. It is a good read, and helps create a better idea of how to view a things with cultural relativism.
Classic example of exploitation of a native people.......2005-02-23
This (so called) interactive CD is a classic example of 2 unfortunate characteristics of Western anthropology: 1) It sees human beings as specimens to be examined, filmed, held up for cultural di-section, for the interest of westerners with no intention of doing good for these people; 2) It inevitably skews the perception of the culture it depicts. Obviously there are degrees of accuracy with any ethnographic description, but in this case we are left with a very distorted picture. For example, we are not told that the Yanomamo have for decades now been willingly seeking and embracing different methods of conflict resolution - rather than killing each other, resolving issues like who "owns" a woman by negotiation rather than by killing those who disagree with you. Many of these constructive and helpful developments, which the yanomamo have embraced of their own free choice (having had a gut-full of the alternative) were introduced by well-meaning missionaries, and yet it seems the anthropologists want the yanomamo to stay frozen in time and keep killing each other. Meanwhile, Chagnon and others go merrily on their way making big $ out of depictions like this and trying to stop missionaries (and others) from helping these people to help themselves.
For a genuine "insiders" view, see Mark Ritchie's "Spirit of the Rainforest" and discover how the Yanomamo themselves view the arrival of anthropologists with films and notepads, and missionaries with new ideas.
It is naive to think that as an anthropologist you can enter a society to observe it, and the act of observation itself not impact that society. In Ritchie's book, for example, you will see how parts of the footage for this CD were obtained (and how for example they scolded a lady for walking onto the set with clothes on - most Yanomamo were by this time wearing clothes of their own accord ("Who wants to keep getting bitten by bugs?") and yet the anthropologists wanted them to stay naked, at least for the film if not forever.)
I give this CD a good score for interactivity and nice graphics and footage, but I give it a zero in terms of any benefit it has brought to the Yanomamo. (You can read in the updated edition of Ritchie's book what the reaction was of a Yanomamo village leader who actually viewed the CD for himself).
So get the CD if you want to see villagers killing each other, but get Ritchie's book if you want to understand the Yanomamo.
a different culture [in danger].......2003-04-05
this book is a good introduction to the Yanomamo people of the Amazon rainforest, in Venezuela & Brazil. There's so much literature on these people; this book really is just an introduction. One thing Chagnon communicates very well in it is how terribly tragic he thinks what's happening to them now is, with western influence, especially in the last chapter. Anyway the way he writes is great.
Informative but controversial.......2002-12-18
This bestseller ethnography is praised for its detail; Chagnon is praised for unprecedented geneological and geographical data. Chagnon has spent many decades living with these people and collecting data. Cultural ecology, subsistence and political organization seem to be his strengths, but the text is exceedingly masculine. It can be criticized for ignorning women, those with less power, and power differential. The author's depiction of the Yanomamo as warlike and fierce is argued as overdone and jeapardizing of the wellbeing of the Yanomamo. Prior to Chagnon they were a mostly uncontacted people and since they have been enculturated, devastated by mining, and have lost respect due to their fierce reputation. Very thought provoking, informative and controversial, this 260 page ethnography is a must read for anyone interested in the field of anthropology.
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Dont buy this just yet..........2006-06-27
I bought this book thinking that it was more info on the Yanomamo people of the Rainforest, but it turned out to be just an older version of a book that I already owned! This book is nothing more than an older and less in depth version of "Yanomamo: The last days of Eden". It has all the same photographs, info, cultural back ground data, and myths printed in it as The last days of Eden, just with less pages and not as much of Chagnon's personal opinion is involved.
This is still an okay book, but I'd recommend buying "Yanomamo: The last days of Eden" instead, if you've got the money to do so.
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Fierce People
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Fierce Warriors (Story Keeper Series)
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A behind-the-scenes glimpse at the brutality and terror between the Hutus and the Tutsis, which left countless families shattered and thousands of children orphaned and destitute.
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Excession
Iain Banks
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It's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she's dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.
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Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.
There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.
Customer Reviews:
Excessively long.......2007-10-05
I finally finished reading Excession. I liked the book overall, but it took me 300 pages before it was interesting enough for me to read it for long periods of time. I've had been struggling reading through it a few pages at a time before that, which probably only exacerbated my disinterest.
The ideas in the book were interesting and there was a lot of new information about the Minds and the way the Culture works in general. Events weren't as rosy (from a Culture society perspective) in the book as there were in previous books. The most notable philosophical conflict was with the Affront, a new race introduced in the book.
I've thought about why it wasn't as good to me over the past couple of days and I think the main reason I was disappointed is because the characters fell kind of flat. I didn't really like anyone in the book. Genar-Hofoen came the closest, but he still wasn't well-developed to me. Dajeil Gelian was completely unlikeable, caught in a 40 year sulk and Ulver Seich was hardly better.
The ships were mildly entertaining, but compared to Mawhrin-Skel from Player of Games, they were dull. I think there were just too many characters spread out over the book and in the end, it didn't come together for me. I'd have to put this about even with State of the Art on my list of Banks books, but I think overall it was a good book, for the history of the Culture, more than for the story (as I felt with State of the Art). Ah well.
exploring Minds and the wealth of the Culture.......2007-09-20
When expecting a Banks' sci-fi book, expect only excellence.
When expecting a Banks' "Culture" book, expect seven things:
1) war, weapons, death and destruction
2) glanding different sensations to alter reality
3) drones with smart mouths, attitudes and a cunning wit
4) knife missiles slicing through baddie targets
5) quirky aliens in and out of the Culture
6) dark, grim gory scenes that will leave you cringing
7) Minds and their space vessels
Here's the breakdown of this Culture novel:
1) War breaks out between the Affront and the Culture, but there was little death and destruction. One or two deaths were satisfying enough.
2) Glanding different sensations to alter brain chemistry was prevalent throughout the book. It played no key role, but it was remarked upon enough.
3) Three of four drones made an appearance here. None of them were over the top scene catchers, but one drone did have a few choice words to say.
4) Sadly, no knife missiles were used.
5) The Affront species was humorous to read about. They seem like a hearty species to be mixed with, as long as you're not their dinner or hunting game.
6) I very much like the gritty scenes in Banks' novels, especially the island scene in Consider Phlebas. Excession had two gritty scenes (one with a death and one with grisly injury). Not up to par.
7) There were more Minds in this Culture book than any other Culture novel I have yet to read. It was bordering on mind-boggling, but the story cleared up towards the end. Reading the conversations between Minds was extremely interesting to experience (especially the Eccentric Minds).
Not all categories were up to par, but between the greatness of witnessing the Affront and the Minds. Well played out.
Forgot how great this is........2007-03-13
I read this about six years ago in dental school. Since then have read a great deal of Sci Fi- some good some mediocre. I picked this up again the other day, and man does this guy rock. He writes sf with a depth of imagination and seriousness of purpose that you won't find anywhere else. This is going to sound sweeping, but many sf writers are just a joke compared to Banks. I told my wife that reading Banks is like listening to Jimi Hendrix play guitar. No understatement.
So if you like sf, give this a try. Its one of the only Banks books you can get in the US. Its cheap, its long, its filled with mind blowing writing. Just trust me on this.
Space opera by a master.......2006-05-20
Another book set in the universe of the Culture, Bank's powerful, hedonistic galactic civilisation devoted to pleasure and doing good works. This one focuses on the machine intelligences of the Culture rather than the people, and makes it clear that the machines are people too, complete with virtues, vices, and erratic behaviour. "Excession" is hard work, but worth it. It's a complex book with multiple plot threads and it's stuffed with dazzling ideas. The Excession itself is an enormously powerful alien artefact/entity that appears and then simply sits there doing nothing; but by doing so it provokes a great many other entities into action they may regret. Banks has the writing skill to pull it off, but you really do have to be paying attention right the way through. It's not perfect -- there are a lot of ship characters in this one, not all of them clearly delineated by personality, and it's very hard to keep track of who's who at times. It does repay the effort, though. It's funny, moving and thought-provoking, and holds a mirror up to ourselves in the same way the Excession does to the people and civilisations that encounter it.
SO WHAT?.......2006-05-02
If someone were to write a science fiction novel in which the mutants invaded the earth and then just went away again I suspect most of us would feel slightly disappointed. Elevate the theme to a super-galactic scale and have a mysterious dark star and a similar satellite putting in an appearance sufficient to give proof of terrifying power and then just have them disappear again likewise leaves me feeling uncertain that 450 pages were worth the trouble of wading through.
It needs no saying that Iain (M) Banks is exceptionally gifted both as a novelist and as a writer. He can keep a huge cast of characters and an enormous complex of sub-plots under control, and the quality of the narrative and the dialogue is never less than highly proficient and professional. All the same, I have an uneasy feeling that this great doorstopper of a book is a bit of a pot-boiler. Space-opera is such a familiar genre by now that any author, however talented, has to tread warily to avoid self-parody. Right from the first few pages I sensed the better and the not-so-good sides of this novel. The first theme of the artificial planet and the lonely lady in her tower by the sea seemed very effective if hardly new or original, but Banks also seemed rather stuck for a way to achieve distinctiveness in the writing. An effective style at the start is always a problem for novelists, and their `solution' is often, as here, a bit of Fine Writing. The trouble with Fine Writing is that it can easily become ridiculous, and I found myself trying to repress my giggles here. The vocabulary is affected and precious, and the larding of hyphenated words made me want to turn it into something like Swinburne, such as
They were steady, the waves, as they broke on the grey-slope,
Hollow grey-slope of shingle that bordered the flood;
And they beat on the shattered up-ground carapaces
And the light-blighted sea-wrack and water-smoothed wood
and similar rubbish.
However I ploughed on eagerly, and I was treated to a familiar repast. Three civilisations, two of them humanoid the other a race of hearty tentacled monsters with a penchant for blood sports, coexist in an uneasy and easily upset peace. Their battle-fleets rush to and fro at speeds outpacing mere light, and the physics underlying such prodigies is explained in the familiar vocabulary of hokum, e.g. `It de-coupled its engine fields from the energy grid and plunged those vortices of pure energy deep into the fabric of its own Mind'. By the third millennium I must say I expect a bit more effort from a science-fiction author than that. There are of course also love interests and sexual encounters, and these I found to be of quite ineffable tedium. Sentient and intelligent machines, spaceships, satellites, drones and whatnot abound too, and the whole effect on me was of a generous but rather dull and predictable meal - more of the usual, better served up no doubt but rather routine fare for all that.
It may simply be that I have read too much of this kind of thing, and certainly it was only the name of Banks that decided me to read this. Younger readers and those whose appetite for it is still fresh may well find it more interesting than I did. Right to the end I was looking for some real touch of originality or vision, something to make the book distinctive, but all I found was competence. That's at least something, I suppose.
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Excession
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