La chute du ciel

Description

This book was written based on the words of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and leader of the Yanomami Indians of Brazil, collected in his language by Bruce Albert, a French ethnologist with whom he has been friends for over thirty years.

Davi Kopenawa recounts his vocation as a shaman since childhood and reveals a centuries-old metaphysics based on the use of powerful hallucinogens. Through his often dramatic personal history, he recounts the devastating advance of white people into the forest and his travels abroad to defend his people.

This exceptional testimony is at once the story of an extraordinary life, a vibrant shamanic manifesto and a cry of alarm in the face of the global ecological crisis as seen from the heart of the Amazon.

A veritable Tristes Tropiques of savage thought, it is a milestone in the history of anthropology.