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The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some 20 centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are the last remaining society untouched by modernisation, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of their people. This prophetic and haunting portrait is made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is on the brink of extinction. With 91 duotone photos plus a map.… (altro)
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Our land, our forest will only die off if the white man destroys it. Then the streams will vanish, the earth will become parched, the trees will dry up, and the rocks of the mountains will split with the heat. The xapiripe spirits who live on the mountains and play in the forest will run away. Their fathers, the shamans will no longer be able to call them to protect us. The land-forest will become dry and empty. The shamans will no longer be able to deter the smoke-epidemics and the evil beings who make us fall sick. Thus all will die. --Davi Kopenawa Yanomami. Shaman
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Dedicated to the Yanomami of Brazil and Venezuela
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[Preface] Valdir Cruz's photographs and journals are wonderful for their ability to capture the moments and the individuals that are disappearing from the world's rainforests with such alarming speed.
[Author's Note] During the fall of 1994, I met and photographed Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a shaman and the headman of Demini-teri, a Yanomami village in northern Brazil near the Venezuelan border.
This morning twelve of us set out on a trek from Hasupuwei-teri to Irokai-teri.
[Afterword] Intrepid is to a photographer as wise to philosopher and dark to night.
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[Preface] Protecting the world's forests is an essential journey, because if we are able to save the indigenous people and their homes, we can save the best that is within ourselves.
It remains to be seen if the governments and organizations involved in contact issues today will care enough to assure the integrity and survival of the health and culture of these threatened people.
[Afterword] While that possibility hangs in the balance, here they are, forest and people-images to arrest the eye and, however calm and lovely they many be, provoke the mind's unease.
The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some 20 centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are the last remaining society untouched by modernisation, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of their people. This prophetic and haunting portrait is made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is on the brink of extinction. With 91 duotone photos plus a map.
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