Yanomamo

Name: Yanomamo
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ISBN: 9780030328190

ISBN-10: 0030328195

ISBN-13: 9780030328190

Edition: 4th

Authors: Chagnon

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List price: $20.50
Edition: 4th
Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Language: English

Foreword
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
Prologue	p. 1
The Killing of Ruwahiwa	p. 2
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo	p. 5
Vignette	p. 5
Collecting the Data in the Field	p. 8
Beyond the Bisaasi-teri and into the Remote Villages	p. 31
Cultural Ecology	p. 45
The Physical Environment	p. 45
Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening	p. 60
The Cultural Ecology of Settlement Pattern	p. 71
New Data from 1990 and 1991 Fieldwork	p. 81
The Great Protein Debate: Yanomamo Data and Anthropological Theory	p. 91
Myth and Cosmos	p. 99
The Spiritual Environment	p. 99
Social Organization and Demography	p. 121
Daily Social Life	p. 122
Social Structure	p. 137
The Demographic Basis of Social Behavior	p. 144
Political Alliances, Trading, and Feasting	p. 159
General Features of Alliances	p. 159
Trading and Feasting in Alliance Formation	p. 162
Historical Background to a Particular Feast	p. 165
The Feast	p. 170
The Chest-Pounding Duel	p. 178
Yanomamo Warfare	p. 185
Levels of Violence	p. 185
The Raid and Nomohori	p. 189
A Specific War	p. 191
General Comments on Yanomamo Violence	p. 204
The Acceleration of Change and Emerging Crises	p. 207
Gradual versus Catastrophic Change	p. 207
Variation in Degree and Kind of Contact	p. 208
The 1987 Brazilian Gold Rush	p. 211
Kaobawa's Village	p. 217
Reduction and Concentration of Villages	p. 222
Age/Sex Distributions and Mortality Patterns	p. 228
Education and Growing Awareness of the Outside World	p. 231
Contending Influences and Conflicting Information	p. 235
Political, Moral, and Philosophical Dilemmas	p. 239
The Future of the Yanomamo - and All Tribesmen	p. 243
Glossary	p. 247
References Cited	p. 249
Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo	p. 257
Index	p. 260
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