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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... plantains soon will transplant large suckers , each weighing 10 pounds or more . But one does not want all the plantains to mature at the same time , for most of them will be wasted . Thus , a good garden has plantains in various stages ...
... plantains soon will transplant large suckers , each weighing 10 pounds or more . But one does not want all the plantains to mature at the same time , for most of them will be wasted . Thus , a good garden has plantains in various stages ...
Page 76
... plantains , but its seeds are light , easily transported in large quantities , and the maturity time is short - two to three months . Thus , one can quickly get an abundant , early , low - effort crop into the ground in a hurry , have a ...
... plantains , but its seeds are light , easily transported in large quantities , and the maturity time is short - two to three months . Thus , one can quickly get an abundant , early , low - effort crop into the ground in a hurry , have a ...
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... Plantains are usually eaten cooked . Green plantains resemble raw pota- toes in taste , even after cooking . Plantains appears to have been intro- duced to the Americas after the arrival of Europeans , but they spread with such rapidity ...
... Plantains are usually eaten cooked . Green plantains resemble raw pota- toes in taste , even after cooking . Plantains appears to have been intro- duced to the Americas after the arrival of Europeans , but they spread with such rapidity ...
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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