My wife and I lived among the Sherente for eigtlt months in 1 955¡ª6 and among the Shavante for slightly lon£ºger in 1 958£®This book IS an account of our experiences£»it is not an essav in anthro¡ª pology-Indeed I have tried to put down here maoy of those things which never get told in technical anthropological writings-- our impressions of Centl¡¯al Brazil£¬our personal rejctions to t´£ VanOUS situations in which we found ourselves£®and above all our feelings about the day¡ªto¡ªday business which is mysteriouslv known as¡®doing fieldwork¡¯£®The narrative is theref6re intentio¶¾ ally anecdotal£®To those readers who find that this book is not as thrilling as a book£®about the wilds of Brazil should be£¬I ofier mv apologies¡¤I can only add by way of explanation that everv iI¶þ cident in it is true£® ¡°
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