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Article: Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Getting to Know Waiwai is a readable and likable book. It will appeal both to academics and to the informed public, especially to readers who are drawn to anthropological and philosophical material and who are interested in Amazonia. It will also appeal to readers who are intrigued by strange and offbeat places. Alan Campbell's ethnography falls squarely within the new genre in anthropology of writing about cultures and peoples in a contextualized manner, without objectifying the studied population. The author's writing style is light, although philosophical and self-analytical, and the text contains dry British wit that will amuse most readers.
The book is a ...