by Joe Kane
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Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
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In this impressive, funny and moving work, Joe Kane tells the story of the Huaorani, a tribe living in the deepest part of the Amazonian rain forest in Ecuador. The Huaorani have only in the last generation been exposed to such items as the wristwatch. But the modern world is reaching them quickly; for better or worse--usually worse--they live astride some of Ecuador's richest oilfields. Oil production in the Amazon has opened the forest to colonization and industrialization, often with alarming results: about 17 million gallons, of raw crude, more than in the Valdez spill in Alaska, were spilled from a Amazon pipeline between 1972 and 1989. Kane, who lived with the Huaorani for months, immaculately reports on the tribes' connections with the old world and its battles with the new one.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Huaoranis understood, 2006-03-22
I found this book very readable and as I was reading it I started to feel like I knew the Huaoranis and feel their pain. Joe Kane may be an anthropologist but he does not write in a manner that makes you think that the Huaoranis are his study subjects. By the time I finished the book I felt like I had been there with them and certainly understood them much better than before. I also became very aware of the horrific destruction caused by the oil companies.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Jaw-Dropper, 2006-02-17
He paints the Huaorani people in a very human light. The Huaorani are a people very misunderstood; they are portrayed by others as vicious, savage, and ignorant people and are exploited by powerful outside forces. This book has opened my eyes to a culture that I never knew existed, one which I now love and am deeply fascinated by. I would whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone looking for more than an adventure. Be prepared to have your horizons widened.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Offers some compelling points, 2005-04-15
I had to read this book for a geology class in college and it definitely raises some interesting points about oil companies, labor abuse laws, poverty, monopoly, and how the people of the land are affected by drilling. The book is all over the place at some points, however, as pages upon pages of detail are given about a boat expedition leading to nowhere while important facts about the oil companies are limited to concise paragraph descriptions.
While I enjoyed the book overall, I wish Kane would have focused more on the importance of what he was tring to say. I understand he had to be objective, but there's not much to be objective about involving the wipeout of an entire culture. Reccomended for those interested in environmental science and human rights.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
What is a Savage?, 2004-04-12
Joe Kane, author of best selling 'Running the Amazon', has tackled a subject often thought of as being the job of anthropologists and the like. As a reporter, Kane has done a good job of relaying details such as the environment the Huaorani live in and the details of the oil industry that looms over their part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. As mentioned in another review, the anthropological insite Kane offers in response to Huaorani culture and how it has changed and adapted to its situation leaves something to be desired. That said, I do not find this to be a problem. Kane is writing for an audience that would probably find most anthropological scholarly texts dry and unintersting, but he has managed to explain the conflict that has arisen due to oil exploitation in the rainforest, all the while demonstrating the effects this exploitation has on humans in the area. I wa spleased to see that Kane demonstrated how the Huaorani have formed a sort of resistance to the destruction of the environment they call home by using conduits provided by external political groups, thus demonstrating how the marginalized make themselves known. The book is engagingly written and Kane, while unable to hide his anti-corporate and anti-oil exploitation sentiments (with which I agree), has made a worthy case for the halting of oil exploitation at the level it was (and still is) being carried on in the Amazon.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Another good one by Joe Kane, 2003-11-17
Have you read Kane's Running the Amazon? Here's another good one. It even won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Assoc Award in 1995. Kane travels to Ecuador to live for a while with the Huaorani tribal people as their Stone Age culture bumps against the 20th Century.
The Huaorani eventually befriended Kane, but at the beginning, it was just as likely that they might murder him, as they had fairly recently killed a missionary and several others they considered enemies. Something about Kane made them feel comfortable - lucky for him.
Kane intersperses magical vignettes of tribal life with historical and sociological information in a way that makes his book imminently readable by ordinary readers like me as well as my scholars and sociologists.
It's a good one.
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