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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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
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
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
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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