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
... hunting possible in those villages with chronic contact with missionaries , and the recent introduction of shotguns ( after 1965 ) in these villages makes both night hunting and day hunting very efficient . Alligators ( caiman ) , the ...
... hunting possible in those villages with chronic contact with missionaries , and the recent introduction of shotguns ( after 1965 ) in these villages makes both night hunting and day hunting very efficient . Alligators ( caiman ) , the ...
Page 104
... hunter accidentally shoots and kills his own noreshi — and thus dies himself . Moreover , if another hunter kills your noreshi , you , too , die . In a sense , hunting of game animals is like hunting and killing humans , for some of the ...
... hunter accidentally shoots and kills his own noreshi — and thus dies himself . Moreover , if another hunter kills your noreshi , you , too , die . In a sense , hunting of game animals is like hunting and killing humans , for some of the ...
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... hunting . Their hunting techniques , I should add , are as devastating as they are illegal by Venezuelan law - hunting by night with large flashlights from motorized canoes , and fishing with seine nets . Apart from feeding themselves ...
... hunting . Their hunting techniques , I should add , are as devastating as they are illegal by Venezuelan law - hunting by night with large flashlights from motorized canoes , and fishing with seine nets . Apart from feeding themselves ...
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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