Yanomamo

American  

[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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Example Sentences

Chagnon was famous for his studies of the Yanomamö people of Amazonia and his use of biology, rather than culture, to explain the violent conflicts he observed among them.

From Scientific American

This exchange was shortly after publication of journalist Patrick Tierney’s book Darkness in El Dorado, which accused Chagnon of inciting warfare and spreading a deadly measles epidemic among the Yanomamö.

From Scientific American

The two decided to conduct a multidisciplinary study of the Yanomamö—a tribe of about 27,000 Indians who live in some 300 villages spread across an area roughly the size of Texas—about whom there were only a few published accounts.

From Scientific American

What little Chagnon knew about the Yanomamö beforehand did not prepare him for that initial encounter, which he described memorably in his first book, Yanomamö: The Fierce People:

From Scientific American

Chagnon did not expect to see violence among the Yanomamö, nor did he anticipate that he would discover biological underpinnings to their behavior, he says.

From Scientific American