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 140
... lineage but parallel cousins will belong to your own lineage . An ' Ideal ' Model of Yanomamö Society Structural anthropologists , such as Levi - Strauss , are fascinated with the ' models ' that can be drawn to represent , in shorthand ...
... lineage but parallel cousins will belong to your own lineage . An ' Ideal ' Model of Yanomamö Society Structural anthropologists , such as Levi - Strauss , are fascinated with the ' models ' that can be drawn to represent , in shorthand ...
Page 143
... lineage to call each other by ' brother ' terms . But the men in cadet line 1 of lineage X are ' actual ' brothers ( they have the same father ) to each other , whereas the men in cadet line 4 of lineage X are their distant ( parallel ) ...
... lineage to call each other by ' brother ' terms . But the men in cadet line 1 of lineage X are ' actual ' brothers ( they have the same father ) to each other , whereas the men in cadet line 4 of lineage X are their distant ( parallel ) ...
Page 212
... Lineage membership comes into play and people align with close agnates : Villages have more " structure " and more social complexity based on descent groups . There are also more customary ways to resolve conflicts each increasingly ...
... Lineage membership comes into play and people align with close agnates : Villages have more " structure " and more social complexity based on descent groups . There are also more customary ways to resolve conflicts each increasingly ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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