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Yanomamo
[ yah-nuh-mah-moh ]
noun
, plural Ya·no·ma·mos, (especially collectively) Ya·no·ma·mo
- a member of an Indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
- the family of languages spoken by the Yanomamo.
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He also observed that power in Yanomamö villages was primarily defined by access to reproductive resources, not material ones.
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And indeed, nearly all Yanomamö headmen have a greater number of male kin in their village than potential rivals do.
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After the shock of his first visit, Chagnon spent the next 25 years studying and living for long periods among the Yanomamö.
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