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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... host a feast at which the Bisaasi - teri would be the guests of honor . They invited men from a fourth village to join ... hosts suddenly set upon them with clubs , bowstaves , and arrows , attacking them in their hammocks . Many died ...
... host a feast at which the Bisaasi - teri would be the guests of honor . They invited men from a fourth village to join ... hosts suddenly set upon them with clubs , bowstaves , and arrows , attacking them in their hammocks . Many died ...
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... host , who sends them to devour enemy souls especially children's souls or to help their hosts cure sickness in the village . The shamans have to take hallucinogenic snuff - ebene - to contact the spirits , but adept shamans with great ...
... host , who sends them to devour enemy souls especially children's souls or to help their hosts cure sickness in the village . The shamans have to take hallucinogenic snuff - ebene - to contact the spirits , but adept shamans with great ...
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... hosts offer food to visitors as soon as they arrive . Yet the hosts were naked , hunting for game , and had nothing with them but their weapons and flimsy , small vine hammocks . Kaobawä and the men in his group knew and understood this ...
... hosts offer food to visitors as soon as they arrive . Yet the hosts were naked , hunting for game , and had nothing with them but their weapons and flimsy , small vine hammocks . Kaobawä and the men in his group knew and understood this ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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