Yanomamo
Americannoun
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Yanomamos,
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Yanomamo
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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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Chagnon’s riveting 1968 account of his field work, Yanomamo: The Fierce People, surpassed Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa to become the bestselling work of ethnography ever.
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
But Chagnon’s description of the life of the Yanomamo is consistent with others I’ve read and makes for fascinating reading for anyone interested in native peoples, history and where we all came from.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2013
When Columbus landed, according to William Balee, the Yanomamo lived in settled villages in the Amazon basin.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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