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 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
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
He made numerous trips over three decades into the backwaters of Venezuela to study Stone Age people called the Yanomamo.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2013
“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
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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