Auca on the Cononaco: Indians of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest

185 Pages·1981·35.491 MB·English

by  Peter Broennimann (auth.)

Auca on the Cononaco
Indians of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest
Text and photographs:
Peter Broennimann
Springer Basel AG
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Library rif Congress Cataloging in Publication Data All rights reserved. No part of this publica Cover photo
tion may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval The luminous red toucan feathers shine in
Broennimann, Peter, 1924- system, or transmitted in any form or by any magnificent contrast to Menga's blue-black
Auca on the Cononaco. means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, hair. Free, proud and content, he lives in
Title on added t.p.: Auca am Cononaco. recording or otherwise, without the prior per harmony with nature in the tropical forest of
Includes index. mission of the copyright owner. his forefathers. But his freedom is endangered.
1. Araucanian Indians. I. Title. Oil companies and missionaries see only the
H. Title: Auca am Cononaco. English version: Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart 'primitive heathens lost in the realms of
F3126.B76 980'.004'98 81-9972 Layout and design: Albert Gomm darkness' and will be able to find no peace
ISBN 978-3-0348-6320-9 AACR2 until the last Auca is on the reservation.
Tide page
CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Menga's first drawing: carefully and con
scientiously he has put one line next to the
Broennimann, Peter: other and deliberated over his choice of
Auca on the Cononaco : indians of the Ecua colors. Visibly pleased with the results, he
dorian rain forest / Peter Broennimann. - explains his work: "Those are trails that run
Basel; Boston; Stuttgart : Birkhäuser, 1981. through the forest, and big huts and many
Dt. Ausg. u.d. T.; Broennimann, Peter: Auca with blowguns."
Auca am Cononaco
© Springer Basel AG 1981
Originally published by Birkhäuser Verlag Basel in 1981
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1981
ISBN 978-3-0348-6320-9 ISBN 978-3-0348-6318-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-6318-6
Contents 17 Introduction
19 Auca: An Endangered Tribe
Foreword by Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger
27 Destination: Cononaco
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53 An Island in the ungle
109 Waaponi!
153 The Auca Reservation on the Curaray
177 Survival in the Tropical Forest
183 Epilogue
The author with Cincawae
Sam Caento Padilla, the son of an Auca and
a Spaniard, is a man between two worlds. For
the Linguists who educated hirn he is nothing
more than a lost ho pe today. But for the
Auca on the Cononaco he is an important
link to the outside world.