Case file · Folklore / legend
Davi Kopenawa's The Falling Sky
In 2010 the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert published La chute du ciel (The Falling Sky), Kopenawa's account of the xapiri spirits shamans call with yakoana snuff and his warning that destroying the forest will bring the sky down.
2010 CE · 1.75, -62.85 · status: account
The account
Kopenawa lives at Watoriki in the Brazilian Yanomami territory (position approximate). The book is a landmark of Indigenous thought in its own voice.