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 25
... Yanomamö demographic patterns and social organization began to make a good deal of sense to me . Only at this point did ... villages into smaller ones emerge as a chronic and important feature of Yanomamo social , political , demographic ...
... Yanomamö demographic patterns and social organization began to make a good deal of sense to me . Only at this point did ... villages into smaller ones emerge as a chronic and important feature of Yanomamo social , political , demographic ...
Page 55
... village construction . I visited Yanomamö villages in the Parima highlands for several weeks in 1967 , some of which were located at about 2500 feet elevation . I was puzzled by the fact that the shabono had large masses of banana ...
... village construction . I visited Yanomamö villages in the Parima highlands for several weeks in 1967 , some of which were located at about 2500 feet elevation . I was puzzled by the fact that the shabono had large masses of banana ...
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... Yanomamö patrilineage is , therefore , an exogamic group - all members must ... Yanomamo society can be represented as being bifurcated into two intermar ... village fissioning . Consider how this kind of model can elegantly represent ...
... Yanomamö patrilineage is , therefore , an exogamic group - all members must ... Yanomamo society can be represented as being bifurcated into two intermar ... village fissioning . Consider how this kind of model can elegantly represent ...
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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