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 159
... feast in his own village at a later date , bringing about another feast and even more intervillage amity . They also serve to reduce the possibility of warfare between groups . I will describe in this chapter some of the relationships ...
... feast in his own village at a later date , bringing about another feast and even more intervillage amity . They also serve to reduce the possibility of warfare between groups . I will describe in this chapter some of the relationships ...
Page 170
... feast in the kind of context that makes it more intelligible : the specific historical relationships between the participants and the nature of their mutual mistrust . Now I will give the details of the events that followed . THE FEAST ...
... feast in the kind of context that makes it more intelligible : the specific historical relationships between the participants and the nature of their mutual mistrust . Now I will give the details of the events that followed . THE FEAST ...
Page 183
... feast with each other do not fight . Nevertheless , even the best allies occasionally agree beforehand to terminate their feast with a chest - pounding duel , thereby demonstra- ting to each other that they are friends , but capable of ...
... feast with each other do not fight . Nevertheless , even the best allies occasionally agree beforehand to terminate their feast with a chest - pounding duel , thereby demonstra- ting to each other that they are friends , but capable of ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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