Yanomamo
Americannoun
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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.
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In an edited excerpt in the New Yorker, Tierney suggested that in 1968 Chagnon and geneticist James Neel might have started or exacerbated a measles outbreak among the Yanomamo by giving them a flawed vaccine.
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
“Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and The Anthropologists” Napoleon Chagnon is the most polarizing anthropologist in the field.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013
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
This ancient lifeway survives today, according to this theory, in the ring-shaped compounds of the Yanomamo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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