Getting to Know Waiwai

Living with the Wayapi and their charismatic leader Waiwai is a serious adventure. It is demanding and can turn dangerous in a moment. The environment is a difficult one but beautiful and baffling in its richness. And the job of learning about the people is like a journey without end.Alan Campbell tells the story of these people and of the time he spent with them in an imaginative beautifully written account which looks back from a century into the future to relate a way of life that is being destroyed. In doing so he addresses important and complex issues in current anthroplogical theory in a way which makes them accessible without sacrificing any of their subtlety.