Ya̦nomamöBased on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995. |
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Page 80
... population growth in local villages and the dispersal of both populations and the villages into which they subdivide . Figure 2.14 thus summa- rizes this in schematic terms , showing that it is possible to identify discrete ' population ...
... population growth in local villages and the dispersal of both populations and the villages into which they subdivide . Figure 2.14 thus summa- rizes this in schematic terms , showing that it is possible to identify discrete ' population ...
Page 248
... population structure not affected by recent major epidemics . The first cluster includes eight villages with a total ( pooled ) population of 797 people . This is a " normal " looking age / sex distribution for the Yanomamö in that a ...
... population structure not affected by recent major epidemics . The first cluster includes eight villages with a total ( pooled ) population of 797 people . This is a " normal " looking age / sex distribution for the Yanomamö in that a ...
Page 249
... population of these eight smaller villages is 474. The general shape of the population pyramid is very different from that given in Figure 8.3 : There are comparatively few children , especially in the age category birth to 10 years ...
... population of these eight smaller villages is 474. The general shape of the population pyramid is very different from that given in Figure 8.3 : There are comparatively few children , especially in the age category birth to 10 years ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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