Shabono Hardcover – 1982

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THIS BOOK IS SPECIAL! For days, the young American anthropologist followed the old Indian woman ever deeper into the jungle. She had come to observe life in the village, or "shabono", unaware that it was she who would be observed - and absorbed. Time would lose all meaning, and she would make the ways of the "Iticoteri" her own. Florinda Donner would spend a year among a people unchanged since the Stone Age, in a world where men & women still undergo strange rites of passage, where illness is cured by spirits called "shapori", where it is believed that fire releases the soul from the body and the soul rises to the house of thunder-an unforgettable world of exquisite beauty and magic. The author Florinda Donner is an anthropologist whose specialty is the study of Indian tribes. This is a special true book to be studied and be amazed with ! ! !