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 229
... mission post itself . The policy of the Salesians has been to " reduce " as many of the widely - separated ... Salesian Mission of Mavaca where Kaobawä's village is lo- cated . There are over 600 Yanomamö living at or near the New Tribes ...
... mission post itself . The policy of the Salesians has been to " reduce " as many of the widely - separated ... Salesian Mission of Mavaca where Kaobawä's village is lo- cated . There are over 600 Yanomamö living at or near the New Tribes ...
Page 238
... Salesian Missionaries or employees of the mission , but in recent years many have entered the area from Brazil via a long trading network involving several isolated , intermediate villages in the headwaters of the Mavaca and in the ...
... Salesian Missionaries or employees of the mission , but in recent years many have entered the area from Brazil via a long trading network involving several isolated , intermediate villages in the headwaters of the Mavaca and in the ...
Page 242
Napoleon A. Chagnon. headwaters began to have sustained contact with the Salesian missions , villages whose only contact with the outside world was my nearly annual trips into their communities where I would spend a month or two on each ...
Napoleon A. Chagnon. headwaters began to have sustained contact with the Salesian missions , villages whose only contact with the outside world was my nearly annual trips into their communities where I would spend a month or two on each ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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