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Yanomamo

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[yah-nuh-mah-moh] / ˌyɑ nəˈmɑ moʊ /

noun

plural

Yanomamos,

plural

Yanomamo
  1. 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.

  2. the family of languages spoken by the Yanomamo.


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In 1964, as a 26-year-old graduate student, Chagnon began studying the Yanomamo, a polygynous tribal people who forage, garden and hunt in the rain forests of Amazonia, near the border of Venezuela and Brazil.

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

Whether the Yanomamo are really fierce people and whether their nature is a function of biology or culture is for the professors to work out.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013

His latest book, “Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists” — reads a little like a valedictory.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013

Gliding nearly nude beneath the trees, cultivating their temporary gardens, the Yanomamo are often said to be windows into the past, living much the same lives as their great-great-great- grandparents.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann