The Yanomamo
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Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995.
ForewordPreface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgmentsPrologue1The Killing of Ruwahiwa2Ch. 1Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo5Vignette5Collecting the Data in the Field8Beyond the Bisaasi-teri and into the Remote Villages31Ch. 2Cultural Ecology45The Physical Environment45Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening60The Cultural Ecology of Settlement Pattern71New Data from 1990 and 1991 Fieldwork81The Great Protein Debate: Yanomamo Data and Anthropological Theory91Ch. 3Myth and Cosmos99The Spiritual Environment99Ch. 4Social Organization and Demography121Daily Social Life122Social Structure137The Demographic Basis of Social Behavior144Ch. 5Political Alliances, Trading, and Feasting159General Features of Alliances159Trading and Feasting in Alliance Formation162Historical Background to a Particular Feast165The Feast170The Chest-Pounding Duel178Ch. 6Yanomamo Warfare185Levels of Violence185The Raid and Nomohori189A Specific War191General Comments on Yanomamo Violence204Ch. 7The Acceleration of Change and Emerging Crises207Gradual versus Catastrophic Change207Variation in Degree and Kind of Contact208The 1987 Brazilian Gold Rush211Kaobawa's Village217Reduction and Concentration of Villages222Age/Sex Distributions and Mortality Patterns228Education and Growing Awareness of the Outside World231Contending Influences and Conflicting Information235Political, Moral, and Philosophical Dilemmas239The Future of the Yanomamo - and All Tribesmen243Glossary247References Cited249Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo257Index260
