The Yanomamo

by Chagnon, Napoleon A.

• ISBN13: 9780155053274
• ISBN10: 0155053272
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Forward. Preface. The Killing of Ruwahiwa. 1. Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo. 2. Cultural Ecology. 3. Myth and Cosmos. 4. Social Organization and Demography. 5. Political Alliances, Trading and Feasting. 6. Yanomamo Warfare. 7. The Mishmishimobewei-teri Village. 8. The Beginning of Western Acculturation. Glossary. References Cited. Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo. Index.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Author's Preface to the Fifth Edition	viii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Illustrations	xx
Prologue	1	(260)
The Killing of Ruwahiwa	2	(3)
Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo	5	(40)
Vignette	5	(3)
Collecting the Data in the Field	8	(23)
The Longest Day: The First One	10	(1)
How Did They Accept You?	11	(2)
Life in the Jungle: Oatmeal, peanut Butter, and Bugs	13	(6)
Collecting Yanomamo Genealogies and Reproductive Histories	19	(3)
Enter Rerebawa: Inmarried Tough Guy	22	(3)
Kaobawa: The Bisaasi-teri Headman Volunteers to Help Me	25	(6)
Beyond the Bisaasi-teri and into the Remote Villages	31	(14)
The Scientific Problem That Emerged	31	(14)
Cultural Ecology	45	(54)
The Physical Environment	45	(15)
Trails and Travel	46	(2)
Technology	48	(5)
Hallucinogenic Drugs	53	(2)
Shelter	55	(5)
Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening	60	(11)
Wild Foods	60	(1)
Vegetable Foods	61	(2)
Gardening	63	(2)
Other Garden Products	65	(5)
Slash-and-Burn Farming	70	(1)
The Cultural Ecology of Settlement Pattern	71	(10)
Micro Movements of Villages and Gardens	71	(3)
Macro Movements of Villages and Gardens	74	(6)
Population and Village Dispersal over Time	80	(1)
New Data from 1990 and 1991 Fieldwork	81	(10)
Bellicose and Refugee Strategies	88	(3)
The Great Protein Debate: Yanomamo Data and Anthropological Theory	91	(8)
Myth and Cosmos	99	(22)
The Spiritual Environment	99	(22)
The Cosmos	99	(3)
Myths: The Beginning of Time and the No Badabo	102	(3)
Jaguar Myths	105	(6)
The Twins Omawa and Yoawa	111	(1)
The Soul	112	(2)
Endocannibalism	114	(2)
Shamans and Hekura	116	(5)
Social Organization and Demography	121	(38)
Daily Social Life	122	(15)
Male-Female Division	122	(4)
Child-Adult Division	126	(2)
Daily Activities	128	(5)
Status Differences and Activities	133	(4)
Social Structure	137	(7)
An `Ideal' Model of Yanomamo Society	140	(4)
The Demographic Basis of Social Behavior	144	(15)
Polygyny, Genealogical Structures, and Close Kinship	149	(3)
Kinship Rules, Reproduction, and Rule Breaking	152	(2)
The Decay of the Nuclear Family	154	(5)
Political Alliances, Trading, and Feasting	159	(26)
General Features of Alliances	159	(3)
Trading and Feasting in Alliance Formation	162	(3)
Historical Background to a Particular Feast	165	(5)
The Feast	170	(8)
The Chest-Pounding Duel	178	(7)
Yanomamo Warfare	185	(22)
Levels of Violence	185	(4)
The Raid and Nomohori	189	(2)
A Specific War	191	(13)
General Comments on Yanomamo Violence	204	(3)
Alliance With the Mishimishimabowei-teri	207	(20)
Conceptions of the Mishimishimabowei-teri	208	(19)
Comparisons of the Two Villages	210	(3)
Contact between Bisaasi-teri and Mishimishimabowei-teri	213	(2)
Peace Feelers	215	(1)
The Social and Heroic Ingredients of Neolithic Peace	216	(10)
The Deaths of Moawa and Dedeheiwa	226	(1)
The Acceleration of Change in Yanomamoland	227	(34)
Gradual versus Catastrophic Change	227	(1)
Variation in Degree and Kind of Contact	228	(3)
The 1987 Brazilian Gold Rush	231	(4)
Massacre at Hashimo-teri	233	(2)
Kaobawa's Village	235	(19)
Reduction and Concentration of Yanomamo Villages	241	(5)
Age/ Sex Distributions and Mortality Patterns	246	(5)
Education and Growing Awareness of the Outside World	251	(3)
Contending Influences and Conflicting Information	254	(7)
Political, Moral and Philosophical Dilemmas	258	(3)
Glossary	261	(2)
References Cited	263	(7)
Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo	270	(3)
Index	273