Ya̦nomamö: The Fierce PeopleThese case studies in cultural anthropology are designed to bring to students, in beginning and intermediate courses in the social sciences, insights into the richness and complexity of human life as it is lived in different way and in different places. |
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Page 179
... Damowa's widows were given to his two eldest surviving brothers . Kaobawä , a classificatory brother to Damowä , then assumed the responsibil- ity of organizing a revenge raid . Damowä's own brothers failed to step forward to assume ...
... Damowa's widows were given to his two eldest surviving brothers . Kaobawä , a classificatory brother to Damowä , then assumed the responsibil- ity of organizing a revenge raid . Damowä's own brothers failed to step forward to assume ...
Page 181
... Damowä was slain , displaying cowardice instead of ferocity . Many of the men in the Bisaasi - teri groups resented the ... Damowa's death took place late in April . The Shamatari allies - Mömariböwei - teri and Reyabowei - teri - were ...
... Damowä was slain , displaying cowardice instead of ferocity . Many of the men in the Bisaasi - teri groups resented the ... Damowa's death took place late in April . The Shamatari allies - Mömariböwei - teri and Reyabowei - teri - were ...
Page 188
The Fierce People Napoleon A. Chagnon. Fig . 6-4 . Damowa's brothers assembled around his remains , blowing ebene ... Damowä . Again , his erstwhile allies , when they complained about having to feed him and his relatives , were blunt and ...
The Fierce People Napoleon A. Chagnon. Fig . 6-4 . Damowa's brothers assembled around his remains , blowing ebene ... Damowä . Again , his erstwhile allies , when they complained about having to feed him and his relatives , were blunt and ...
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abduct alliance allies animal anthropologists arrows Bahimi Bäkotawä began behavior Bisaasi-teri blow brothers canoe Chagnon chest chest-pounding duel club fight coefficient of relatedness collecting cousins cross-cousins cultivated Damowä daughter enemies feast field research fieldwork fierce film firewood fission fruits garden genealogical guests hallucinogenic hammocks headman hekura hosts human hunting Indians individuals intervillage Jaguar jungle Kaobawä's group Kaobawä's village Karina Karohi-teri kill kind kinship large number larger leaves lineage living machete Mahekodo-teri male marriage marry Mavaca meat missionaries Monou-teri myths Namoweiteri neighbors noreshi Orinoco River parallel cousins Paruriwä Patanowä-teri pattern peach palm plantains political population blocs protein Puerto Ayacucho raid raiders relatedness relationships relatively Rerebawä shabono shamans Shamatari villages shotguns social someone Timothy Asch trade tree trip uncontacted usually Venezuelan vines visitors warfare wife wives woman women Yanomamö culture Yanomamö villages young