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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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
The book contained allegations of misconduct by scientists and journalists scrutinizing the Yanomamo.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019
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
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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