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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... shaman's body is a veritable cosmos of rivers , streams , mountains , and forests where the bekura can dwell in comfort and happiness . Only the more accomplished shamans have many hekura inside their bodies , and even then they must ...
... shaman's body is a veritable cosmos of rivers , streams , mountains , and forests where the bekura can dwell in comfort and happiness . Only the more accomplished shamans have many hekura inside their bodies , and even then they must ...
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... shamans spend an equal amount of time warding off the dangerous spirits sent by their enemies . Children are ... shamanism and curing is directed toward the children . Daily Activities Kaobawä's village is oval shaped . His house is ...
... shamans spend an equal amount of time warding off the dangerous spirits sent by their enemies . Children are ... shamanism and curing is directed toward the children . Daily Activities Kaobawä's village is oval shaped . His house is ...
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... shaman in the village , weeds his garden , interrupted periodically by his wife and children , who groom him while he ... shamans as they blow wood ashes into each other's nostrils through hollow reeds . Their amusing pantomime clearly ...
... shaman in the village , weeds his garden , interrupted periodically by his wife and children , who groom him while he ... shamans as they blow wood ashes into each other's nostrils through hollow reeds . Their amusing pantomime clearly ...
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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