Fascinating book: Into the Heart

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Some years ago anthropologist Kenneth Good wrote a very fascinating book about how he found love among the Yanomami people in Venezuela and how that changed him and his understanding about that people. The name of the book is Into the Hearth.

Anthropologist Kenneth Good went to the rain forests of the Amazon to study the Yanomami. He found more than one of the few remaining peoples untouched by modern "civilization." During more than a decade of observation, Good found himself accepted, indeed virtually adopted, by the tribe and eventually fell in love with a young Yanomami woman. In the process, he made exciting new discoveries about the tribal people and about himself. Into the Heart is the fascinating story of his journey of discovery.

Amazon.com: Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami (9780673982322): Kenneth Good, David Chanoff: Books


After the events of the book many things have happened. The wife of Kenneth Good has returned to Venezuela after living some years in the US. She could not stand the life in our western culture.  Here is an article about those events.

A Love Story | Singing to the Plants


Now, many years later one of her sons, David Good, that grew up mostly in the US, has returned to visit his mother and the Yanomami people.

East Stroudsburg University Foundation - ESU alumnus has one foot in the 21st century and the other in the Stone Age