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 42
... uncontacted tribe of South American Indians . Other experiences I have had were much more dangerous . On one occa- sion my hosts very nearly succeeded in killing me as I slept ( Chagnon , 1974 : Chapter V ) . More recently , in 1990 and ...
... uncontacted tribe of South American Indians . Other experiences I have had were much more dangerous . On one occa- sion my hosts very nearly succeeded in killing me as I slept ( Chagnon , 1974 : Chapter V ) . More recently , in 1990 and ...
Page 64
... uncontacted villages enjoy relatively new ax heads that get traded into them via the intermediate Yanomamö villages that link theirs to the mission posts whence most steel tools now come . Still , I have contacted remote villages where ...
... uncontacted villages enjoy relatively new ax heads that get traded into them via the intermediate Yanomamö villages that link theirs to the mission posts whence most steel tools now come . Still , I have contacted remote villages where ...
Page 209
... uncontacted Yanomamö villages and I personally felt it was more important to learn as much about aboriginal pat- terns especially patterns of demography and warfare in these more remote and isolated villages . There would always be many ...
... uncontacted Yanomamö villages and I personally felt it was more important to learn as much about aboriginal pat- terns especially patterns of demography and warfare in these more remote and isolated villages . There would always be many ...
Contents
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamö | 5 |
Cultural Ecology | 45 |
Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
Copyright | |
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