1. Magical Death
Their more than forty films resulted in making the Yanomami of this particular village are one of the most visually well-represented aboriginal peoples in 20th century anthropological studies. ... The calling on spirit guides of one people to kill the enemies of another people, with whom they have just formed their alliance, serves as a bonding experience as well as political power building. ... According to Tiffany and Adams: "Other anthropologists, including those who have conducted field research among the Yanomami, have challenged Chagnon's sociobiological paradigm of the "Fierce Peop...
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