A highly readable book about the remarkable relationship between a forest people and their environment - the watershed between the Brazilian Amazon and the Venezuelan Orinoco. It provides a fascinating insight into their culture and intricate knowledge of plants, animals and the ecology of the environment in which they live.
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The Yanomami are a nonstate people of some 20,000 living in numerous villages of Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazonia who speak several dialects of what seems to be one language isolate. Various works on their ethnography, demography, health, and territory already exist. This beautifully illustrated book constitutes a very valuable contribution to their ethnobotany.--William Balee "Economic Botany" (7/1/2002 12:00:00 AM)
