Yanomamo
Americannoun
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Yanomamos,
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Yanomamo
plural
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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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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
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
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
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
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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