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 190
... missionaries , who have been and continue to remain free to use whatever means or techniques they have to accomplish this objective . While the explicit goal of all the missionaries is the conversion of the Yanomamö to Christianity and ...
... missionaries , who have been and continue to remain free to use whatever means or techniques they have to accomplish this objective . While the explicit goal of all the missionaries is the conversion of the Yanomamö to Christianity and ...
Page 203
... missionaries I have spoken to about the known military use of shotguns by men in their villages likewise continue to give ammunition to the offenders , preferring to discount my information as " just another of those Yanomamö ' rumors ...
... missionaries I have spoken to about the known military use of shotguns by men in their villages likewise continue to give ammunition to the offenders , preferring to discount my information as " just another of those Yanomamö ' rumors ...
Page 207
... missionaries and perhaps , ultimately , to trouble with the Venezuelan officials . In general , with most of the missionaries , the problem was not too serious , for most of them were relatively patient with the Yanomamö and employed ...
... missionaries and perhaps , ultimately , to trouble with the Venezuelan officials . In general , with most of the missionaries , the problem was not too serious , for most of them were relatively patient with the Yanomamö and employed ...
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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