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Cargando... The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure (2018)por Carl Hoffman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not the wild man I was expecting, but a good story well tall. I’m glad I had the chance to read this. ( ) I have a lot of thoughts about this one. My feelings about this book are anything but straightforward. It's faced-paced, absorbing, well-written. More than that, it made me think a lot. There are a lot of tangled themes explored in this book: neo-colonialism, the ethics of the trade of primitive art, environmentalism and conservation, the classic Victorian Gentleman Explorer trope as lived by white men in the late 20th century, orientalism/the Western obsession with the "exotic," the very idea of what kinds of ways of living have meaning. I came out with so many conflicted emotions. On the one hand, Hoffman directly addresses the grossness of the Western/white/Global North's obsession with indigenous/untouched cultures and Eastern spirituality and all the many, many ways that is destructive, especially in a consumer culture. And yet he also falls into exactly that trap himself. Which I can't actually fault him for, because I have a weakness in that area myself. I appreciate his honesty about it, and yet I wanted him to come to some better conclusions about it. That's probably not fair of me. This is a book that raises a lot of questions, but gives few firm conclusions. I wanted more conclusions than it gave, but I don't think anyone would be able to supply them. Instead of forcing conclusions onto the text, he leaves the questions on their own, which was really the only honest way to write the book. The developed (western) world has a fascination with primitive cultures. Tattoos, piercings, yoga, tiedye, Burning Man, etc.. we idolize the primitive in a sterile constrained technological and overcrowded society. The 1960s was when this started to become commoditized. Hippies traveled to the far corners, seeking enlightenment from the ancient, or simply an escape into the wilderness. Most returned, some sent expensive artifacts home, and some stayed forever. This is the story of two central figures, one a Swiss national and self-styled wild-man, Bruno Manser, the other an American art dealer, Michael Palmieri. They both lived remarkable adventure-filled lives at the intersection between cultures, and at the tip of the spear. More than an adventure story, though, Hoffman's narrative examines what it really means to value the primitive. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) * A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization--or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world's last Eden, where the lines between sinner and saint blur into one. In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet's third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled "Headhunters of Borneo." Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan's homeland, Bruno led the tribe against these outside forces, earning him status as an enemy of the state, but also worldwide fame as an environmental hero. He escaped captivity under gunfire twice, but the strain took a psychological toll. Then, in 2000, Bruno disappeared without a trace. Had he become a madman, a hermit, or a martyr? American Michael Palmieri is, in many ways, Bruno's opposite. Evading the Vietnam War, the Californian wandered the world, finally settling in Bali in the 1970s. From there, he staged expeditions into the Bornean jungle to acquire astonishing art and artifacts from the Dayaks. He would become one of the world's most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. And yet suspicion shadowed this self-styled buccaneer who made his living extracting the treasure of the Dayak: Was he preserving or exploiting native culture? As Carl Hoffman unravels the deepening riddle of Bruno's disappearance and seeks answers to the questions surrounding both men, it becomes clear saint and sinner are not so easily defined and Michael and Bruno are, in a sense, two parts of one whole: each spent his life in pursuit of the sacred fire of indigenous people. The Last Wild Men of Borneo is the product of Hoffman's extensive travels to the region, guided by Penan through jungle paths traveled by Bruno and by Palmieri himself up rivers to remote villages. Hoffman also draws on exclusive interviews with Manser's family and colleagues, and rare access to his letters and journals. Here is a peerless adventure propelled by the entwined lives of two singular, enigmatic men whose stories reveal both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the wildest place on earth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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