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Ecological determinants of chieftainship among the Yaruro Indians of Venezuelaessay 1962 • Leeds, Anthony
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
The author presents the hypothesis that the relatively weak position of chieftainship among the Yaruro, and by extension among the South American Indians, as a whole, is because of their ecology. He presents a model of an ecological type that he beli...The ideology of the Yaruro Indians in relation to socio-economic organizationarticle 1960 • Leeds, Anthony
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this study the author attempts to show the relationship between Pumé (Yaruro) socio-economic organization and their ideology and to isolate from their ideological system factors that could be used for comparative purposes in cross-cultural researc...Some problems of Yaruro ethnohistoryarticle 1964 • Leeds, Anthony
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This source presents a critical evaluation of the ethnographic data presented by Petrullo and others regarding Yaruro horticulture, the existence of matrilineal clans, clan exogamy, matrilateral cross-cousin marriage and totemism. This evaluation was...Yaruro incipient tropical forest horticulture:essay 1961 • Leeds, Anthony & Wilbert, Johannes
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This source is primarily concerned with the relationship between a specific ecological system and the resulting cultural pattern. The author uses the Yaruro of the central Cinaruco area to illustrate this relationship using the indigenous tropical fo...