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 57
... shotguns are available . No shotguns were in the hands of any Yanomamö in the Mavaca area when I began my field research in 1964. By 1975 , members of at least 8 or 10 villages in that area experienced increased contact with ...
... shotguns are available . No shotguns were in the hands of any Yanomamö in the Mavaca area when I began my field research in 1964. By 1975 , members of at least 8 or 10 villages in that area experienced increased contact with ...
Page 202
... shotguns by missionaries and those who work for them is also a major and serious issue . Several missionaries , both Catholic and Protestant , have told me that they like to give trade goods such as shotguns and flashlights , for it ...
... shotguns by missionaries and those who work for them is also a major and serious issue . Several missionaries , both Catholic and Protestant , have told me that they like to give trade goods such as shotguns and flashlights , for it ...
Page 203
... shotgun shortly after we completed the film ( Asch and Chagnon , 1970 ) . Some of the raids in which shotguns have been used were conducted only because the raiders had a new , superior weapon and wanted to try it out - the possession ...
... shotgun shortly after we completed the film ( Asch and Chagnon , 1970 ) . Some of the raids in which shotguns have been used were conducted only because the raiders had a new , superior weapon and wanted to try it out - the possession ...
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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