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 14
... relatively antiseptic environment of the northern United States . Either I could be relatively well fed and relatively comfortable in a fresh change of clothes and do very little fieldwork , or I could do considerably more fieldwork and ...
... relatively antiseptic environment of the northern United States . Either I could be relatively well fed and relatively comfortable in a fresh change of clothes and do very little fieldwork , or I could do considerably more fieldwork and ...
Page 60
... relatively small and chronically migratory . Indeed , most of the villages in Kaobawä's area periodically go on waiyumö , ' camping , ' for extended periods of time , usually breaking up into groups of about 30 or 40 people . During ...
... relatively small and chronically migratory . Indeed , most of the villages in Kaobawä's area periodically go on waiyumö , ' camping , ' for extended periods of time , usually breaking up into groups of about 30 or 40 people . During ...
Page 85
... relatively low - lying , relatively flat inland regions that are well drained and rather extensive in area ; " C " for rugged foothills that constitute the transition from the lowlands to the mountains ; " D " for the very rugged ...
... relatively low - lying , relatively flat inland regions that are well drained and rather extensive in area ; " C " for rugged foothills that constitute the transition from the lowlands to the mountains ; " D " for the very rugged ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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