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Jacques Lizot
Jacques Lizot (born 1938) is a French anthropologist and linguist. He lived among the Yanomami people in Venezuela for over 20 years, documenting their culture and language. Among his writings are the 1976 book ''The Yanomami in the Face of Ethnocide'', the 1985 book ''Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest'' and the 2004 ''Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Yanomami Language''. The 2000 book ''Darkness in El Dorado'' and the 2010 documentary film ''Secrets of the Tribe'' included allegations that Lizot had traded goods for sexual favours from young boys. Lizot denied the allegations. Early life and education Jacques Lizot was born on 11 February 1938 in Montreuil, France. He studied at Sorbonne University, receiving a PhD in anthropology in 1967. He was an Orientalist and studied classical Arabic. His doctoral thesis concerned the rural sociology of an Algerian village, based on surveys conducted in 1966 in Mitidja. Lizot later expanded on the thesis in his 1973 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanomami
The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. Etymology The ethnonym ''Yanomami'' was produced by anthropologists on the basis of the word , which, in the expression , signifies "human beings." This expression is opposed to the categories (game animals) and (invisible or nameless beings), but also (enemy, stranger, non-Indian). According to ethnologist : History The first report of the Yanomami to the Northern world is from 1654, when an El Salvadorian expedition under Apolinar Diez de la Fuente visited some Ye'kuana people living on the Padamo River. Diez wrote: From approximately 1630 to 1720, the other river-based indigenous societies who lived in the same region were wiped out or reduced as a result of slave-hunting expeditions by the conquistadors and bandeirantes. How this affected the Yanomami is unkn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
