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Title: brilliant, in-depth journalism, hated by myth-makers
Review: Ritchie is not an anthropologist, or a missionary, or a tourist, or... Finally, a fascinating portrayal of what a 'primitive' or 'native' people think of all the foreign interlopers. I'm sure this book infuriates a lot of (not all) anthropologists, because it reveals how wrong some renowned anthros were about the Yanomamo people's world view, desires, sexuality, warfare, etc. It also exposes the widespread anthro-myth that missionaries are clumsy culture destroyers, and that 'primitive' people are happy in their spiritism and nakedness until ruined by vile, western, kill-joy religion. Here is the story of what a Yanomamo shaman experienced in his life before and after he met a variety of foreigners (anthropologists, missionaries, ethno- and eco-tourists, miners & loggers, et al.), and what he thought of each. This book parallels many similar stories elsewhere (esp. in the Amazon, in Papua), but this one is especially well told.
