The David Good Yanomami-American Story
Exploring the idea of mobile people and correspondingly flexible identities, I wanted to find out more about the anthropologist Kenneth Good (who worked and lived with the Yanomami for 12 years) infamous for ‘going native’. Kenneth Good’s marriage to the young Yarima was controversial – he was 36 and she was 12. “Where do you draw the line – if there is one?” Good asks, in the documentary film Secrets of the Tribe. “Seeing as I have lived with them so long, that line fades away – there is no line.”
In searching for more information, I came upon the following article that describes their son David’s journey back to his mother – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23758087
“Who am I? Am I Yanomami or am I nabuh? The Yanomami see me as a nabuh and the nabuh see me as Yanomami. I get caught in the middle. ”
Contributed by DivyaCandade on 16/02/2015
