The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest
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From Publisher's Weekly "It is hard to imagine that another book will appear for a long time so poignant and full of wonders as Nance's full-bodied story of the discovery of a tiny handful of Stone... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0151349908
ISBN13:9780151349906
Release Date:January 1975
Publisher:Harcourt Brace
Length:490 Pages
Weight:1.63 lbs.
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Asia History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Southeast Asia TextbooksCustomer Reviews
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Modern Jungle cave tribe story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I met John Nance in Portland when showing his slide show of 'Tasaday' from remote jungle tribe, he was amazed & enchanted by their openess & awareness there, explaining details how they lived with beautiful B+W photos to prove they're real small cave commune. He visited them for many days & book explains the politics of getting into & out of primeval forest jungle, so remote from villagers who didn't know they existed, living on wild raw foods, fruit & nuts, cooked frogs & rare pig, The relationships between them living communally we can see the happiness of children, i found in 2 cooperative communes with children in NW US in 1970s wild hippies, not native forest dwellers. The Tasaday's were mostly naked, open, peaceful, caring & living outdoors in hot jungle under huge canopy, rarely seeing much sky, stars & big animals. This book is a classic ethnography as journalism reporting the only cave tribe of 20th century i think. It seems too 'real' for anthropology to get into their primal living needs in jungle.
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