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Spirit Of The Rainforest Chapter Summary

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In reading Spirit of the Rainforest, Mark Ritchie describes the life of the Yanomami people according to a powerful shaman called “Jungleman”. The Yanomami people do not use names. It depicts the conversation of a Venezuelan shaman, named Jungleman, to Christianity. The focus of the book is on the story of life in the Amazon, how they lived before the nabas arrived and told them about the great spirit, “Yai-Pada”. Its a story of murder, rape, revenge, power, joy and fear. As the reader one is able to enter their vastly different culture. It is a brutal, violent, and savage way of life. Jungle man has contact with the spirits, he is regarded as the most powerful in their village. Jungleman introduces a conflict and then explores the underlying

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