A large group can't even go over an hour without someone from the party having to stop to dig out a thorn. Even though their feet are hardened and thickly calloused, walking in streams and through muddy terrain softens the calloused feet, allowing thorns to become deeply imbedded (Chagnon 1997: 47). Another severe hazard are snakes and the bite they deliver. A surprisingly large number of Yanomamo die from snakebites, and almost everyone in this culture will eventually get bit sometime in their life (Chagnon 1997: 47). Even though most of the snakebites are not fatal, they are however, extremely painful. A few snakebites can be severe enough to cause the loss either of a limb or its use. Trails are not the only place snakebites are hazardous. Gardens are just as dangerous, as well as near the village. Yanomamo people must always be careful when picking up firewood, and wandering around the garden, for they may be bit at any given moment. Yanomamo technology is simple and very direct. There is no tool or technique so complex that it requires specialized knowledge or raw materials, and each village, therefore, can produce every item of material culture it requires from immediately available resources (Chagnon 1997: 49). The Yanomamo hunt with bows and arrows or blow guns. The blowguns are all made in a similar way. A piece of cane is used to fashion the shaft. A mouthpiece is cut or carved out of wood. The darts are made from sharpened fibers and balanced on the end with either cotton, which they grow in the villages, or the fiber off the kapok tree. They often use the poison from the poison dart frog to dip the ends of the darts in. They do this by stroking the sides of the frog, causing it to excrete the poison, then boil it down to intensify it. The darts are carried in a quiver . The top of the quiver is made from animal hide, or even woven leaves. The bows and arrows are also all made in a similar way.
The life of Yanomamo people is indeed filled with violence. ... The Yanomamo people habitually use hallucinogenic drugs and are all addicted to tobacco. ... Yanomamo people are simply "not worth consideration". ... "The Yanomamo themselves regard fights over women as the primary causes of their wars." ... Chagnon often described the friendships that he made with some of the Yanomamo people. ...
This is a look into the lives of the Yanomamo Indians of Brazil and Venezuela. ... There is also mentioning of how the government treated the Yanomamo decades ago some of the history of the Yanomamo Indians. ... Chagnon has also formed a group called the Yanomamo Survival Fund. ... During Chagnon's 50 months of fieldwork on the Yanomamo Indians, all of it was done with the Yanomamo in Venezuela except of one brief period in 1967. ... Yanomamo village population size and land area vary. ...
The Yanomamos bulk of food comes from the garden (manioc, maize, and bananas). ... Among the Yanomamo, men have difficulty finding women because they are in short supply. ... The Yanomamo live in only a ranked society, which is decidedly masculine because "men are more valuable than women". ... Political organization among the Yanomamo is carried out in feasts. ... Some Yanomamo even play with their rich language and work at being what we might call literary or learned....
The Yanomamo live in the tropical rainforests of Brazil and Venezuela. ... (Smoles 1976:7) The Yanomamo as a culture has found a way to adapt to their environment. ... Like the Yanomamo, the Masaai also have a sort of adapting ritual (Masaai.com). ... This proves that the Yanomamo have more than one way in which marriage is practiced. ... In comparison to the Yanomamo, they do...
The Yanomamo has a unique family organization. ... However, when the Yanomamo becomes ten years old, one thirds of them live in a family with their parents, and one tenth of them are in such family when they comes to be twenty years old. This means that most marriageable aged Yanomamo men don't have a living father, who must die from attacks of raiders or accidents. In Yanomamo society, marriages are arranged by a father, but, in the case of absence of a father, they are arranged by elder men of their kinship or elder male friends. The Yanomamo usually marry more than one wife as ...
Yanomamo women are treated as materialistic objects and promised by their father or brother to a Yanomamo man in return for reciprocity. ... The trades are often practiced in the Yanomamo culture. Polygamy is also a part of the Yanomamo culture. Yanomamo women are kept in the male's possession. ... Adultery is inexcusable to the Yanomamo. ...
The material that promotes the film in an academic and independent film catalog, BuyIndies.com, describes the process of the ritual by saying: "The shaman plays a vital role in Yanomamo society, for it is he who calls, commands, and often is possessed by spirits, or hekura. ...
The essential difference in these two theories is what drives a society towards its advancements. Marx believed that the inequality between the haves and have-nots would lead to a revolt from the proletariat. (The proletariat are easily described as the workers who are employed by the capitalists.) ...
The material that promotes the film in an academic and independent film catalog, BuyIndies.com, describes the process of the ritual by saying: "The shaman plays a vital role in Yanomamo society, for it is he who calls, commands, and often is possessed by spirits, or hekura. ...
