Professor John F. Peters and the Yanomami

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This paper, written in biographical form, discusses the encounters of Professor Peters in the Yanomami. It explores his meeting and integrating with various tribes, such as the Xilixana. This paper further shows how he started off as a missionary of sorts and how after becoming so involved with the tribes that he gained a respect for their cultures and way of life and how it changed his intentions.

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"Professor John F. Peters recently retired from department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. John spent most of his youth in the forests of British Columbia. After a year at the University of British Columbia where he studied linguistics and cultural studies, John decided to pursue his avocation the study of aboriginal, indigenous tribes of South America. He joined a "un evangelical mission society in Brazil. He studied Portuguese and lived with the Xilixana tribe of the Yanomami. During his mission service, he married and had children; he continued his education via correspondence courses in anthropology at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oregon. In 1967, John, along with his family, returned to the USA to complete his studies. He completed his education leading up to a doctorate in Sociology. As a faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University, his main research focused on family, ethnicity and social change. John Peters returned to the Yanomami several times for research leading up to the book "Life Among the Yanomami" (Peters, 1998)."

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