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 viii
... knew a great deal about them before even getting there ... and they knew a lot about me as well . This trip reminded me that the world of the Yanomamö is shrinking rapidly and that the Yanomamö are traveling more exten- sively and ...
... knew a great deal about them before even getting there ... and they knew a lot about me as well . This trip reminded me that the world of the Yanomamö is shrinking rapidly and that the Yanomamö are traveling more exten- sively and ...
Page 39
... knew about me . They knew I had a wife and two children , and the sexes and approximate ages of my children . They could repeat with incredible accuracy conversations I had had with Yanomamö in many different villages . One of them even ...
... knew about me . They knew I had a wife and two children , and the sexes and approximate ages of my children . They could repeat with incredible accuracy conversations I had had with Yanomamö in many different villages . One of them even ...
Page 157
... knew from many previous years of fieldwork in these villages how everyone was genealogically related back four or five generations , and knew what they should have called the kinsmen that were related to them in the specifiable ...
... knew from many previous years of fieldwork in these villages how everyone was genealogically related back four or five generations , and knew what they should have called the kinsmen that were related to them in the specifiable ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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