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THE YANOMAMO
ISBN: 9780030328190 | 0030328195
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 6/15/1992
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| 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 Physic... MORE | 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 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
