| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
A young student of archaeology receives an offer she can't refuse, the chance to live among the Pume, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro Ana, the author and the principal researcher study a vanishing way of life in which cash money, the written word, automobiles, and airplanes are rare and frightening intrusions. Yu, adopted into a Pume family, provides an informal personal account of her two years' stay, describing the daily cycles of birth, growth, romance, sickness, healing, and death among the villagers. Yu's journal entries seek to present, through a young American's eyes, a sketch of her Pume family, their heroic struggle to survive in a changing world, and the power, humor, and mystery of the Pume way of life. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964-
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Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964- |
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Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964- |
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Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964- |
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Women anthropologists -- Venezuela -- Biography.
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Women anthropologists. |
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Venezuela. |
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Biographies.
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Yaruro Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Yaruro Indians. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork. |
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964- Hungry lightning. 1st ed. Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©1997 082631807X (DLC) 97004845 (OCoLC)36776381 |
| ISBN |
0585187568 (electronic book) |
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9780585187563 (electronic book) |
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082631807X (paperback) |
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9780826318077 (paperback) |
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