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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... Yanomamö villages since I began my initial field research in 1964 when I was a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan . I have been back to the Yanomamö ten times thus far and have spent a total of 42 months living among them ...
... Yanomamö villages since I began my initial field research in 1964 when I was a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan . I have been back to the Yanomamö ten times thus far and have spent a total of 42 months living among them ...
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... village , in the Parima ' mountains ' , relatively large natural savannas occur at higher elevations , and one finds Yanomamö villages there as well . Much of the lowland area is inundated during the wet season , making it either ...
... village , in the Parima ' mountains ' , relatively large natural savannas occur at higher elevations , and one finds Yanomamö villages there as well . Much of the lowland area is inundated during the wet season , making it either ...
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... villages immediately adjacent to his , but far inland to the most remote villages ( Chagnon and Asch , 1976 ) . Other mission posts where permanent contact with the Yanomamö now exists provide large quantities of these same items to the ...
... villages immediately adjacent to his , but far inland to the most remote villages ( Chagnon and Asch , 1976 ) . Other mission posts where permanent contact with the Yanomamö now exists provide large quantities of these same items to the ...
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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