By Pei-Lin Yu
A tender scholar of anthropology gets a suggestion she cannot refuse: the opportunity to dwell one of the Pum???, a South American hunting-and-gathering those that name the tropical Venezuelan savannah domestic. in the course of their time within the village of Doro An???, the writer and the relevant researcher examine a vanishing lifestyle during which funds cash, the written notice, autos, and airplanes are infrequent and scary intrusions.Adopted right into a Pum??? relations, Yu's casual and private debts of occasions in the course of her yr remain sparkle with descriptive thrives and turns of word as she describes the day-by-day cycles of beginning, development, romance, illness, therapeutic, and loss of life one of the villagers. Enlivened with the author's personal illustrations, Yu's magazine entries search to give via a tender American's eyes a comic strip of her Pum??? family members, their heroic fight to outlive in a altering global, and the facility and secret of the Pum??? method of life."In Hungry Lightning we glimpse haunting fragments of lifestyles one of the Pum??? Indians. we discover an intimate, deeply feminine???but ever-so-slightly jaded and unusually melancholic???voice savoring the tastes and scents of lifestyles lived within the Venezuelan savanna. A complexly sensual portrait."--Barbara Tedlock
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As the minutes dragged by, the suspense was agonizing, and I was having difficulty breathing. In the uprising five weeks before over a hundred people, most of them bystanders, were killed. Without having to be asked, Rusty crawled on his hands and knees to the refrigerator, got the beer, and slithered back to the tub, where we sat in the dark holding hands and getting drunk. "I'm guessing that the verb caceroler means to beat on a casserole dish with any handy implement to express sol- Page 12 idarity with antigovernment forces.
To Dr. Roberto Lizarralde, also of the Central University of Venezuela, for his hospitality in Caracas and for his helpful information on the Doro Aná Pumé, based on many years of anthropological fieldwork in the Doro Aná area. To Dr. Otto Fornés and his wife Margarita, who provided invaluable assistance in navigating the permitting system in Venezuela. Dr. and Mrs. Fornés are also owed many thanks for rescuing, feeding, and housing me during travel emergencies. To José Rafael Pernía, his sister Flor Chavez, and her family, for their hospitality in Caracas and their kind help in the frenzy of travel planning.
She wears her hair in a little braid, usually tied with a bit of cloth ribbon. She calls me big sister, or amí. Page 37 The Pumé in Their Wet Season Camp MAY-JULY 1992 In which the rains begin and the llanos floods; we all move to higher ground; Pumé childcare; I try to dance; my first encounter with true hunger; tohé meditations; a criollo lunch; Newe; Manisanta; bugs from Hell; the Pumé discover tampons; letters from home; a dirty joke; making and devouring cassava cakes; a beautiful tortoise; secret snacks; I throw a tantrum Page 38 5/12/92 Nearly everyone has packed up and moved to the wet season camp.