Pioneers Resources

The Yanomamö of the Amazon – endangered children of nature or indigenous warmongers on the verge of destroying themselves? Now a powerful Yanomamö shaman speaks for his people. Jungleman provides shocking, never-before-answered accounts of life-or-death battles among his people – and perhaps even more disturbing among the spirits who fight for their souls. Brutally riveting, the story of Jungleman is an extraordinary and powerful document.

“… there is an uncomfortable irony here for us all; that those who are studied might offer their own self-understanding in place of our ethnographies … a most interesting document … for the vivid window it opens on aspects of Yanomamö shamanism.” Dr. Neil Whitehead, “American Anthropologist” journal

Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamö Shaman’s Story. By Mark Andrew Ritchie. 288 pages. Second Edition.

Related resources:

• The Enemy God
• The Second Trail
• Growing Up Yanomamo