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 an edited excerpt in the New Yorker, Tierney suggested that in 1968 Chagnon and geneticist James Neel might have started or exacerbated a measles outbreak among the Yanomamo by giving them a flawed vaccine.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019
Many Yanomamo warriors had confessed to Chagnon that they loathed war and wished it could be abolished from their culture.
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
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
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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