The Yanomami in My Life

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Claudia Andujar

Claudia Andujar was born in Switzerland, in 1931. Her father, a Hungarian Jew, was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau where he later died. In the early 1950s, she moved to the United States and, in 1956, left the US for Brazil. In the early '70s, she met a group of Yanomami Indians in the Amazon Basin of northern Brazil, who had had little contact with the outside world. Intrigued by their way of life, she gave up a career as a photojournalist to embark on an in-depth photographic essay on the tribe. During the 1980s, Andujar witnessed a devastating incursion into Yanomami territory, when thousands of gold miners made their way into the Amazon. In 1998, she published The Yanomami: The House, The Forest, The Invisible. Her photographs, which have provided the outside world with a glimpse into the spiritual, magical universe of the Yanomami, are in the collections of museums around the globe. Andujar lives in São Paulo

Clifford E. Landers

Clifford E. Landers has translated over two dozen book-length works from Portuguese, most recently João Ubaldo Ribeiro's House of the Fortunate Buddhas