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Chagnon's definition of unokai in regards to the Yanomami.

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:37:56
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Napoleon Chagnon has observed and recorded the histories of 60 Yanomami villages. The Yanomamami are Indians that live widely scattered in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They usually live in villages of 75 to 80 people, but there may be as few as 40 people or as many as 300 people in a single village. The Yanomami live by a combination of horticulture and foraging. Most of what they eat has been cultivated in their gardens. Each household in the …

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…producer, Ira R. Abrams ; script and narration by Napoleon A. Chagnon. Publisher: New York, NY : Insight Media, distributor, 1994, c1983.1 videocassette (29 min.) Abstract: The nature and difficulties encountered in anthropological fieldwork are explored. Napoleon Chagnon is both writer and guide to his fieldwork among the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela. Tierney, Patrick. The Fierce Anthropologist, The New Yorker, November, 2000 Turon, Jaime. Letters to Napoleon Chagnon. Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, October, 2003

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