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 71
... garden plot — especially a species that splits easily - is jealously regarded and becomes a useful resource . Over time , the more useful large trees are gradually split , broken or chopped into firewood by the women and the garden gets ...
... garden plot — especially a species that splits easily - is jealously regarded and becomes a useful resource . Over time , the more useful large trees are gradually split , broken or chopped into firewood by the women and the garden gets ...
Page 72
... gardens by the Yanomamö can be thought of as ' micro ' movements and entail either the extension of an existing garden or the clearing of a new garden a few hundred or so meters from the existing garden . In either case , the planting ...
... gardens by the Yanomamö can be thought of as ' micro ' movements and entail either the extension of an existing garden or the clearing of a new garden a few hundred or so meters from the existing garden . In either case , the planting ...
Page 79
... garden to rest up , eat voraciously from their ripe crops , and leave , taking both food and cuttings with them , and camp out in their new garden where they work at felling or burning trees or planting crops , living off a combination ...
... garden to rest up , eat voraciously from their ripe crops , and leave , taking both food and cuttings with them , and camp out in their new garden where they work at felling or burning trees or planting crops , living off a combination ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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