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 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
Chagnon had sought out the Yanomamo, one of the few isolated tribes left in the world, hoping to discover clues to human evolution.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2019
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
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
He watched Yanomamo work with stone and steel axes and on the basis of these observations came up with a formula to project the time necessary to cut individual trees with both types of tool.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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