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 58
... larger , as we will see in the next chapter . Obviously , a village with 400 people has to be larger than a village with 40 people . The second determinant of the physical size of a village is politics - the extent to which members of a ...
... larger , as we will see in the next chapter . Obviously , a village with 400 people has to be larger than a village with 40 people . The second determinant of the physical size of a village is politics - the extent to which members of a ...
Page 87
... larger villages in the lowlands seem to retreat to the safety of the mountainous area to avoid further predation . Making a living in this region is much more difficult and is energetically more costly . Finally , Zone " E " is the ...
... larger villages in the lowlands seem to retreat to the safety of the mountainous area to avoid further predation . Making a living in this region is much more difficult and is energetically more costly . Finally , Zone " E " is the ...
Page 229
... larger vil- lages are splitting away from the main group to do this . As this trend continues , mission villages are becoming larger and larger . There are nearly 500 Yanomamö living at or near the Salesian Mission of Mavaca where ...
... larger vil- lages are splitting away from the main group to do this . As this trend continues , mission villages are becoming larger and larger . There are nearly 500 Yanomamö living at or near the Salesian Mission of Mavaca where ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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