[HN Gopher] The survival skills of Helena Valero
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       The survival skills of Helena Valero
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-10-06 18:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | turtleyacht wrote:
       | From Internet Archive:
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       |  _Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by
       | Amazonian Indians_ as told to Ettore Biocca (1996, translated
       | from the Italian by Dennis Rhodes)
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       | https://archive.org/details/yanoamastoryofhe0000vale/mode/1u...
        
       | jonathaneunice wrote:
       | > The scarcest resource [in primitive society] wasn't food. It
       | was protection.
       | 
       | Interesting meta-claim.
        
       | underlipton wrote:
       | >Her insights into a primitive (sic) society is worth more than
       | that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple
       | reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those
       | societies. She didn't only study stone age life. She lived it.
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       | This reminded me of Zora Neale Hurston, who had taken a similar
       | approach when studying the history and practice of voodoo in
       | Haiti and Jamaica.
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       | https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/claimin...
        
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