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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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
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