| Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Earthly Paradise |  | Author: Ariel Segal
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
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Edition: 1st
Pages: 341
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ISBN: 0827606699
EAN: 9780827606692
ASIN: 0827606699
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
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Ariel Segal, a Jewish anthropologist and novelist from Venezuela, spent two years living in Iquitos, Peru in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, studying a community of Jewish "mestizos", descendants of Jewish men who a century ago went into the Amazon seeking fortune and adventure, married native Amazonian women, and created a unique hybrid culture, combining elements of both groups, as well as features from the ever-present Catholic missionary culture. The members of this community consider themselves Jews; many have immigrated to Israel. Segal documents their unique beliefs, practices, and culture, and shows the tensions between this peculiar jungle outpost and the mainstream Jewish community of Lima on the coast. The author presents himself as a "participant-observer", revealing his own responses to his subjects through a journal kept while he was in Iquitos.
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