| Jivaro: Head-Hunters of the Amazon Contributor(s): Flornoy, Bertrand (Author), Hunter, Jack (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1840681888 ISBN-13: 9781840681888 Publisher: Creation Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (0.70 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Jivaro Indians of the Peru-Ecuador interior have long been renowned for their ferocity and cruelty in warfare; they are also shamanistic, communing with ancient spectres through the ingestion of poisonous hallucinogens. But above all, the Jivaro are known for their unique and macabre brand of death magic -- the severing and shrinking of human heads. JIVARO is the true account of an expedition into the Amazon rain forest to locate and study the Jivaro Indians; their dialects, social structures, methods of survival, and -- above all -- the orgiastic witchcraft rites which culminate in the slaughter, decapitation and spell-binding of their enemies, whose souls are forever imprisoned and silenced by the ritual reduction of their heads. - Illustrated throughout - with a new Introduction - two anthropological Forewords on the Jivaro and the history of human trophy-taking JIVARO is one of the true classics of populist ethnography, a vivid record of a vanishing way of life which retains its power to grip, and sometimes shock, the reader. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flornoy, Bertrand: - Bertrand Flornoy (1910-1980), was a French explorer, archeologist, film-maker and anthropologist. He specialised in studying the Amazon jungles of Peru and the head-hunters to be found there.Hunter, Jack: - Jack Hunter is author and editor of over 20 previous books on cinema, including EROSā ^INā ^HELL and MOONCHILD, as well as the popular book on Japanese art, DREAMā ^SPECTRES, and the counter-culture classic FREAKā ^BABYLON. |