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... Yanomamo In his book Yanomamo: The Fierce People, the anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (1968b) has described the political system of the Yanomamo Indians of southern Yanomamo tribesmen of southern Venezuela, arguing over a trade item ...
... Yanomamo In his book Yanomamo: The Fierce People, the anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (1968b) has described the political system of the Yanomamo Indians of southern Yanomamo tribesmen of southern Venezuela, arguing over a trade item ...
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... Yanomamo live in approximately 125 dispersed villages, each with a population of between 40 and 250 people. Chagnon estimates the total Yanomamo population at about 10,000. The Yanomamo are tribal horticutural- ists whose staple is the ...
... Yanomamo live in approximately 125 dispersed villages, each with a population of between 40 and 250 people. Chagnon estimates the total Yanomamo population at about 10,000. The Yanomamo are tribal horticutural- ists whose staple is the ...
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... Yanomamo? The answer, again, is related to the shortage of women. Among the Yanomamo brothers determine whom their sisters will marry. To the Yanomamo, the ideal form of marriage is brother-sister exchange. (See Figure 75.) Sam, a ...
... Yanomamo? The answer, again, is related to the shortage of women. Among the Yanomamo brothers determine whom their sisters will marry. To the Yanomamo, the ideal form of marriage is brother-sister exchange. (See Figure 75.) Sam, a ...
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Introduction to Anthropology | 3 |
Historical and Evolutionary | 19 |
POPULATION GENETICS AND | 34 |
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