The YanomamoBased on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now publishing in a legacy 6th edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995. Also included in this legacy edition will be an interview Q&A with the author revealing his own take on his life's work in the context of recent controversy. This interview will cap the legacy edition with rich perspectives from the author, his fieldwork, and the field of anthropology. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version. |
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User Review - Karin7 - LibraryThingNote that this is apparently a reprint of a book from the 1960s. The author has since been discredited. I studied this for an anthropology class. Read full review
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User Review - Kassilem - LibraryThingI've never really knew much about the Yanomamo before this besides the fact that they lived in circular structures and used hallucinatory drugs. And only that because I had to do a tiny bit of ... Read full review
Contents
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Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 101 |
Social Organization and Demography | 123 |
Political Alliances Trading and Feasting | 163 |
Yanomamo Warfare | 189 |
Alliance with the MishimishimaboweiTeri | 211 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Yanomamo |
| Author | Napoleon A. Chagnon |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1133713785, 9781133713784 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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