Ya̧nomamö, the fierce people
By: by Napoleon A. Chagnon.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Yanomamo Indians.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 141-142.
Table of contents: title: Doing fieldwork among the Yąnomamö -- Adaptation. The physical environment. Trails and travel -- Technology -- Weapons -- Hallucinogenic drugs -- Troughs and canoes -- Shelter -- Food and its gathering -- Gardening -- Garden products -- Conclusion -- Adaptation to the sociopolitical environment. Alliances and village size -- Fission and settlement -- Intellectual environment. The cosmos -- The first beings -- The soul -- Noreshi -- Treatment of the dead -- Shamans -- Conclusion -- Social organization. Social structure. The lineage -- The local descent group -- Village fissioning -- Discrepancies in the marriage pattern. Demographic basis -- Political basis -- Division of labor and daily social life. Male-female division -- Child-adult division -- Relatives by blood and by marriage -- Daily activities -- Status differences and activities -- Political alliance, trading and feasting. General features of alliance -- Trading and feasting in alliance formation -- Historical background to a particular feast -- The feast -- The chest-pounding duel -- Yąnomamö warfare. Levels of violence -- The raid and nomohoni -- A specific war -- Glossary.