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The Yanoama are foraging horticulturalists living in the dense tropical forest of South America. Their language is not affiliated with any major South American language family. Yanoama are egalitarian and live in large circular communal dwellings. There is some status differentiation based on age, sex, and personal accomplishments within combat, oration, and shamanism. Endemic feuding and warfare has marked inter-village relations.

Memoir on the culture of the Waica

Raids among the Waica

The Surara and Pakidai, two Yanoama tribes in northwest Brazil

Yanomamö warfare, social organization and marriage alliances

Ya̦nomamö, the fierce people

The population dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama

Culture summary

Additional bibliography on the Yanoama

Blood group antigen tests of the Waica Indians of Venezuela

On the language of the Surara and Pakidai

The sociology of the Waica

The Sanema

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Barker, James	Memoir on the culture of the Waica	1953
Barker, James	Raids among the Waica	1959
Becher, Hans	The Surara and Pakidai, two Yanoama tribes in northwest Brazil	1960
Chagnon, Napoleon A.	Yanomamö warfare, social organization and marriage alliances	1967
Chagnon, Napoleon A.	Ya̦nomamö, the fierce people	1968
Early, John D.	The population dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama	1990
Hames, Raymond B.	Culture summary	1995
Human Relations Area Files	Additional bibliography on the Yanoama	1993
Layrisse, Miguel	Blood group antigen tests of the Waica Indians of Venezuela	1962
Rodrigues, Aryon Dall'Inga	On the language of the Surara and Pakidai	1960
Schuster, Meinhard	The sociology of the Waica	1958
Wilbert, Johannes	The Sanema	1963

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