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 26
... patterns through time begin to emerge in the data , and I could begin to understand how kinship groups took form ... pattern to work from and one to flesh out . Without the help of Rerebawä and Kaobawä it would have. 26 DOING FIELDWORK ...
... patterns through time begin to emerge in the data , and I could begin to understand how kinship groups took form ... pattern to work from and one to flesh out . Without the help of Rerebawä and Kaobawä it would have. 26 DOING FIELDWORK ...
Page 80
... patterns that result from the immediate decisions can be determined only by interviewing scores of old people who can recall all the gardens they lived in during their lifetimes and the major events that transpired there . Two of the ...
... patterns that result from the immediate decisions can be determined only by interviewing scores of old people who can recall all the gardens they lived in during their lifetimes and the major events that transpired there . Two of the ...
Page 250
... patterns in these groups . These mortality patterns are probably characteristic of what happens when iso- lated tribesmen are exposed to contact with the outside world . There is usually a very high initial mortality pattern shortly ...
... patterns in these groups . These mortality patterns are probably characteristic of what happens when iso- lated tribesmen are exposed to contact with the outside world . There is usually a very high initial mortality pattern shortly ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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