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The Spears of Twilight is the extraordinary story of three years among the legendary Jivaro Indians of South America by Philippe Descola, a student of Claude Levi-Strauss. Isolated in the jungle of the Upper Amazon on the border of Ecuador and Peru, the Achuar are a tribe of Jivaros whose reputation for headhunting has kept them safe for centuries from incursions by whites. The Spears of Twilight is the story of Descola's years among them and a tribute to their resistance. Chronicling his growing intellectual and emotional intimacy with the Achuar, Descola leads the reader through the joys and sorrows of their daily life: the drama of their remarkable belligerence, the poetry of their magical songs, and the excitement of their mystic encounters with the spirits of ancestors. The Spears of Twilight is also a fascinating narrative of Descola's gradual comprehension of the Achuar's consciousness; through the book a sophisticated and unusual cosmology emerges that deeply undermines our own understanding of time, religion, nature, and society.… (altro)
The spear of twilight is coming, son, my son Quick, dodge it! The hollow spear is coming, son, my son Quick dodge it! The emesak, as it is called Let it not lie in wait for, son, my son Let it not behold you with the clear vision of natem trances As they gradually bear you away Let each of your steps be disguised as a chonta palm.
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[Prologue] The frontiers of civilization seldom present an attractive face even to the unprejudiced eye.
Wajari returns from his bathe adjusting his old itip, a loincloth with vertical stripes of red, yellow, white and blue that reaches to mid-calf.
[Epilogue] Between this moment, as I near the end of the chronicle that I have been writing intermittently over a whole decade, and the beginning of the experiences that it relates, just over sixteen years have passed.
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[Prologue] It was the penultimate day of October 1976, the feast day of Saint Welcome.
This is thinking that touches lightly upon things, reflects them, picks up their vibrations, thinking that is forged in a viscous world in flux, in which even death must be decked in the gleams of the setting sun if it is to confront the continuity of time
[Epilogue] A few thousand Indians dotted about in a distant jungle are certainly worth as much attention as any volume of dubious futurology, and even if their present tribulations evoke nothing but indifference on the part of human beings too impatient to feel love for themselves in different guises, let us at least acknowledge that in their destiny, which as for so long been different from our own, we may perhaps glimpse a fate that is in store for ourselves.
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DESCOLA, PHILIPPE, Les lances du crépuscule. Relations Jivaros, Haute-Amazonie, Prologue et Epilogue par l'auteur, Post-scriptum « Les écritures de l'ethnologie », Plon, 1993.
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The Spears of Twilight is the extraordinary story of three years among the legendary Jivaro Indians of South America by Philippe Descola, a student of Claude Levi-Strauss. Isolated in the jungle of the Upper Amazon on the border of Ecuador and Peru, the Achuar are a tribe of Jivaros whose reputation for headhunting has kept them safe for centuries from incursions by whites. The Spears of Twilight is the story of Descola's years among them and a tribute to their resistance. Chronicling his growing intellectual and emotional intimacy with the Achuar, Descola leads the reader through the joys and sorrows of their daily life: the drama of their remarkable belligerence, the poetry of their magical songs, and the excitement of their mystic encounters with the spirits of ancestors. The Spears of Twilight is also a fascinating narrative of Descola's gradual comprehension of the Achuar's consciousness; through the book a sophisticated and unusual cosmology emerges that deeply undermines our own understanding of time, religion, nature, and society.
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