Yanomamo
Americannoun
plural
Yanomamos,plural
Yanomamo-
a member of an Indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
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the family of languages spoken by the Yanomamo.
Example Sentences
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Many Yanomamo warriors had confessed to Chagnon that they loathed war and wished it could be abolished from their culture.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019
Saying he had been falsely accused of claiming that there is a "warfare gene," he denied that Yanomamo warriors are innately warlike.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019
He made numerous trips over three decades into the backwaters of Venezuela to study Stone Age people called the Yanomamo.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013
It covers a description of the Yanomamo and their habits written in relatively plain English without much Academic Speak.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013
Indeed, the Yanomamo are relative newcomers to their homeland, many of them moving there only in the seventeenth century as they fled European diseases and cruelty further south.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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