1. The Yanomamo
The only time they trade is with missionaries or for something that a "modern" person brought, such as an ax or machete. Some villages have a surplus of a specific fruit tree and so they trade this product to other villages. When a village or family unit does not have a garden they may beg for food in other villages, but they will be expected to pay back what they have taken when they get their own garden. Exchange only occurs between allied villages and may be a reason why villages are allied.
Among the Zinacantecos, the men are encouraged to be married or engaged by the time they reach the ages of 16 or 17, and same for the women. The women must go with her husband and reside in his mother's house, while he farms with his father and brothers in the lowlands. The wife must submit to her husbands" mother. In some cases, wives have been known to run back to their own mothers because of mistreatment. Although, their husbands must then return to the wife's family with a gift, usually liquor, to win back both his wife and her father's favor.
Among the Yanomamo, men have difficulty finding women because they are in short supply. Women never have trouble finding husbands and are married throughout most of their lives.
The Zinacantecos live in both a stratified and ranked society. During the age of socialization, within the culture sacred values, ritual procedures and prayers are learned. Sacred stories about the gods and their activities are told at night by the father and experiences involving beliefs about their "souls" are often shared in conversation. Children attend the formal school of the Mexican government and are married when they are sixteen or seventeen years old. Marriage is an exchange of individuals, goods, services, courtesies, entertainment, and ritual, which is at once economic, social, religious and moral. Each family becomes more heavily committed, emotionally as well as financially.
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 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. ...