Life Among the Yanomami /

Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich and well-rounded understanding of this famously isolated peo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Peters, John F. (John Fred), 1935-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 1998.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Changement social > Bresil > Mucajaí, vallee de la.
Yanomami (Indiens) > Conditions sociales.
Yanomamo.
Yanomamo Indians.
Social change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Changement social > Bresil > Mucajaí, Region de la.
Yanomami (Indiens) > Bresil > Mucajaí, Region de la.
Social change > Brazil > Mucajaí River Valley.
Yanomamo Indians > Brazil > Mucajaí River Valley.
Mucajaí, vallee de la (Bresil) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Brazil > Mucajaí River Valley.
Mucajaí, Region de la (Bresil) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Yanomami, Xilixana, and the anthropological approach
  • Field entry, language-learning, and cultural surprises
  • Village life and social culture : basic patterns
  • Everyday life : food and child care, hunting and fishing
  • Family and social organization
  • Socialization and life stages
  • Myths, spirits, and magic
  • The precontact period : a time of isolation
  • Postcontact history : enter the missionaries
  • The missionary presence : translation, literacy, and social effects
  • "Warfare," raids, and revenge
  • Adaptation in a precapitalist society : agents of change
  • Health as an agent of change
  • Broader considerations in the study of social change
  • Reflections on social change among the Yanomami.

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