Ya̦nomamöBased on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth 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. |
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Page 192
... Monou - teri . Manasinawä's wife took her daughter and fled to yet another village . Kaobawä then organized a raid to recover the woman and child when their protectors refused to give them back . The two were taken by force from this ...
... Monou - teri . Manasinawä's wife took her daughter and fled to yet another village . Kaobawä then organized a raid to recover the woman and child when their protectors refused to give them back . The two were taken by force from this ...
Page 194
... Monou- teri shifted from one lineage to the other , equally large , lineage . Kaobawä delayed the revenge raid until April , giving the Monou - teri time to expand their new garden . This date also coincided with the beginning of the ...
... Monou- teri shifted from one lineage to the other , equally large , lineage . Kaobawä delayed the revenge raid until April , giving the Monou - teri time to expand their new garden . This date also coincided with the beginning of the ...
Page 195
... teri ultimately withdrew from the war , about as demoralized as the Monou - teri were . Several of my informants claimed that they did so because their fierce ones were all dead , and nobody was capable of prosecuting the war any ...
... teri ultimately withdrew from the war , about as demoralized as the Monou - teri were . Several of my informants claimed that they did so because their fierce ones were all dead , and nobody was capable of prosecuting the war any ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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