Book
Ya̦nomamö, the fierce people: the fierce people
Holt, Rinehart and Winston • New York • Published In 1968 • Pages: xiv, 142
By: Chagnon, Napoleon A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Yanoama in the tropical forest between the Rio Negro and the Orinoco, live on the cultivation of various food plants, of which plantains are of major importance. This book describes Yanoama society as characterized by a state of chronic warfare that determines not only inter-village but also intra-village and intra-family relationships. This book also contains a very interesting description of the author's personal experience as a field worker.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- 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.
- 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
- Nov. 1964-Feb. 1966 (Venezuela); Jan.-March 1967 (Brazil and Venezuela); Jan.-March 1968 (Venezuela)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Venezuela and Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Napoleon A. Chagnon
- Bibliography: p. 141-142
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68022310
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yanoama Indians