The Chute du Ciel: A Pas-de-Deux between a Shaman and an Anthropologist
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2017.01.006Keywords:
Amazonia, Yanomami, EthnographyAbstract
This article is the result of a book published recently that met with acclaim among leading anthropologists as a watershed in literature on the discipline. It revolves around the long message sent by a Yanomami shaman who, from his Amazon stronghold, talks to us as white people through a French anthropologist with whom he has maintained a long ethnographic relationship. The message is expressed on several levels: an overwhelmingly baroque cosmology, an extremely rich life story, a savage ethnography of the white world, and an indictment of the danger of universal annihilation implied by white incursion on Amazon life. After the rather belated presentation of the book, the article explores the shaman-ethnologist relationship underlying this extremely ambitious work and the unsurprising equivalence between the shaman’s accusation and the ideology of repudiation of ourselves so common in our own media.
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