The Yanomamo

, by Chagnon,Napoleon A.

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ISBN: 9780155053274 | 0155053272
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Copyright: 11/15/1996

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Summary

Forward. Preface. The Killing of Ruwahiwa. 1. Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo. 2. Cultural Ecology. 3. Myth and Cosmos. 4. Social Organization and Demography. 5. Political Alliances, Trading and Feasting. 6. Yanomamo Warfare. 7. The Mishmishimobewei-teri Village. 8. The Beginning of Western Acculturation. Glossary. References Cited. Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo. Index.

Foreword

Author's Preface to the Fifth Edition

viii

Acknowledgments

xiv

Illustrations

Prologue

(260)

The Killing of Ruwahiwa

(3)

Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo

(40)

Vignette

(3)

Collecting the Data in the Field

(23)

The Longest Day: The First One

(1)

How Did They Accept You?

(2)

Life in the Jungle: Oatmeal, peanut Butter, and Bugs

(6)

Collecting Yanomamo Genealogies and Reproductive Histories

(3)

Enter Rerebawa: Inmarried Tough Guy

(3)

Kaobawa: The Bisaasi-teri Headman Volunteers to Help Me

(6)

Beyond the Bisaasi-teri and into the Remote Villages

(14)

The Scientific Problem That Emerged

(14)

Cultural Ecology

(54)

The Physical Environment

(15)

Trails and Travel

(2)

Technology

(5)

Hallucinogenic Drugs

(2)

Shelter

(5)

Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening

(11)

Wild Foods

(1)

Vegetable Foods

(2)

Gardening

(2)

Other Garden Products

(5)

Slash-and-Burn Farming

(1)

The Cultural Ecology of Settlement Pattern

(10)

Micro Movements of Villages and Gardens

(3)

Macro Movements of Villages and Gardens

(6)

Population and Village Dispersal over Time

(1)

New Data from 1990 and 1991 Fieldwork

(10)

Bellicose and Refugee Strategies

(3)

The Great Protein Debate: Yanomamo Data and Anthropological Theory

(8)

Myth and Cosmos

(22)

The Spiritual Environment

(22)

The Cosmos

(3)

Myths: The Beginning of Time and the No Badabo

102

(3)

Jaguar Myths

105

(6)

The Twins Omawa and Yoawa

111

(1)

The Soul

112

(2)

Endocannibalism

114

(2)

Shamans and Hekura

116

(5)

Social Organization and Demography

121

(38)

Daily Social Life

122

(15)

Male-Female Division

122

(4)

Child-Adult Division

126

(2)

Daily Activities

128

(5)

Status Differences and Activities

133

(4)

Social Structure

137

(7)

An `Ideal' Model of Yanomamo Society

140

(4)

The Demographic Basis of Social Behavior

144

(15)

Polygyny, Genealogical Structures, and Close Kinship

149

(3)

Kinship Rules, Reproduction, and Rule Breaking

152

(2)

The Decay of the Nuclear Family

154

(5)

Political Alliances, Trading, and Feasting

159

(26)

General Features of Alliances

159

(3)

Trading and Feasting in Alliance Formation

162

(3)

Historical Background to a Particular Feast

165

(5)

The Feast

170

(8)

The Chest-Pounding Duel

178

(7)

Yanomamo Warfare

185

(22)

Levels of Violence

185

(4)

The Raid and Nomohori

189

(2)

A Specific War

191

(13)

General Comments on Yanomamo Violence

204

(3)

Alliance With the Mishimishimabowei-teri

207

(20)

Conceptions of the Mishimishimabowei-teri

208

(19)

Comparisons of the Two Villages

210

(3)

Contact between Bisaasi-teri and Mishimishimabowei-teri

213

(2)

Peace Feelers

215

(1)

The Social and Heroic Ingredients of Neolithic Peace

216

(10)

The Deaths of Moawa and Dedeheiwa

226

(1)

The Acceleration of Change in Yanomamoland

227

(34)

Gradual versus Catastrophic Change

227

(1)

Variation in Degree and Kind of Contact

228

(3)

The 1987 Brazilian Gold Rush

231

(4)

Massacre at Hashimo-teri

233

(2)

Kaobawa's Village

235

(19)

Reduction and Concentration of Yanomamo Villages

241

(5)

Age/ Sex Distributions and Mortality Patterns

246

(5)

Education and Growing Awareness of the Outside World

251

(3)

Contending Influences and Conflicting Information

254

(7)

Political, Moral and Philosophical Dilemmas

258

(3)

Glossary

261

(2)

References Cited

263

(7)

Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo

270

(3)

Index

273

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