The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Contents
Foreword
Maps
Setting the Scene
Words Given
I. Becoming Other
1. Drawn Words
2. The First Shaman
3. The Xapiri’s Gaze
4. The Animal Ancestors
5. The Initiation
6. Spirits’ Houses
7. Image and Skin
8. The Sky and the Forest
II. Metal Smoke
9. Outsider Images
10. First Contacts
11. The Mission
12. Becoming a White Man?
13. The Road
14. Dreaming the Forest
15. Earth Eaters
16. Cannibal Gold
III. The Falling Sky
17. Talking to White People
18. Stone Houses
19. Merchandise Love
20. In the City
21. From One War to Another
22. The Flowers of Dream
23. The Spirit of the Forest
24. The Shamans’ Death
Words of Omama
How This Book Was Written
Map
Appendix A. Ethnonym, Language, and Orthography
Appendix B. The Yanomami in Brazil
Appendix C. Watoriki
Appendix D. The Haximu Massacre
Notes
Ethnobiological Glossary
Geographic Glossary
References
Acknowledgments
Index