Global InformationYanoama information
 1996 English edition | |
| Author | Ettore Biocca, Helena Valero (uncredited) |
|---|---|
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Leonardo da Vinci |
Publication date | 1965 |
| OCLC | 253337729 |
Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (original Italian title Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi)[1] is a biography of Helena Valero, a mixed-race mestizo woman[2][3] who was captured in the 1930s as a girl by the Kohorochiwetari, a tribe of the Yanomami indigenous people, living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. She lived with the Yanomami for about two decades (variously given as 20,[4] 22,[5][6] or 24[7] years). While living with the Yanoama, Valero married twice and gave birth to four children (three sons and one daughter). She escaped in 1956[7] to what she refers to as "the white man" in the country of her birth. After rejection by her family and living in poverty at a mission, Valero chose to return to life with the Yanomami.[7][8]
Valero recounted her life's story to Italian biologist and anthropologist Ettore Biocca, who published the account in 1965. In the book, Valero tells of life in the forest: hunter-gatherer living in the Amazon; the customs, lore, rituals, and observances of Yanomami culture; and the relationships and wars between individuals, families, and tribes.[4][6][9] The book includes detailed information about life in several Yanomami tribes.
According to James Clifford, its authenticity is not questioned by anthropologists.[10]
- ^ Biocca, Ettore (1965). Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi (PDF). "All' Insegna dell'Orizzonte" (in Italian). Vol. 23. Bari: Leonardo da Vinci. OCLC 253337729.
- ^ Ferguson, R. Brian (1995). Yanomami Warfare: A Political History. School of American Research Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-933452-38-1.
Valero , a mestizo girl , was captured by Yanomamo in 1932 or 1933
- ^ Handbook of Latin American Studies. University of Florida Press. 1971. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8130-0355-9.
True story of Helena Valero a mestizo who lived among the Yanoama of the Upper Orinoco for almost 20 years after being kidnapped by them as a young child
- ^ a b Shapiro, Judith (December 1971). "Yanoáma: The Narrative of a White Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians – Reviewed by JUDITH SHAPIRO, University of Chicago". American Anthropologist. 73 (6): 1331–1333. doi:10.1525/aa.1971.73.6.02a00270.
- ^ Clastres, Pierre (1969). "Une Ethnographie Sauvage (A propos de Yanoama)". L'Homme. 9 (1): 58–65.
- ^ a b Mitchell, Simon (September 1970). "BOOK REVIEWS – Yanoama: The Story of a Woman Abducted by Brazilian Indians by Ettore Biocca". Man. New Series, Vol. 5 (3): 551–552. doi:10.2307/2799005. JSTOR 2799005.
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1996-introwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Wallace, David Rains (November 12, 2000). "The Left Hand of Darkness". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Pratt, Mary Louise (1986). "Fieldwork in Common Places". In Clifford, James; Marcus, George E. (eds.). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (PDF). Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. pp. 27–50. ISBN 978-0-520-05729-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.