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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The book contained allegations of misconduct by scientists and journalists scrutinizing the Yanomamo.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019
Chagnon’s riveting 1968 account of his field work, Yanomamo: The Fierce People, surpassed Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa to become the bestselling work of ethnography ever.
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
But Chagnon’s description of the life of the Yanomamo is consistent with others I’ve read and makes for fascinating reading for anyone interested in native peoples, history and where we all came from.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2013
This ancient lifeway survives today, according to this theory, in the ring-shaped compounds of the Yanomamo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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