Book
Yanomamö warfare, social organization and marriage alliances
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1967 • Pages:
By: Chagnon, Napoleon A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, Chagnon found that a situation of extreme aggression characterized intra-tribal relations among the Yanoama of the Mavaca Basin of Venezuela. Among these Yanoama Indians villages split frequently due to conflicts between residents. Warfare is most frequent and fierce between villages that have developed from such splits. The most frequent cause for conflict is the shortage of women. Alliances between villages are very unstable because of the frequency of warfare. Chagnon found that this high level of conflict was not at all characteristic of the Yanoama of the Uraricaa River area in northern Brazil.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Kin groups
- Regulation of marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yanoama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964-1966 (p. introductory p. ii)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Michigan, 1966
- UM 67-8226
- Bibliography: p. 216-221
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yanoama Indians