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The Yanomami can be classified as foraging horticulturalists, depending heavily on rainforest resources; they use slash-and-burn horticulture, grow bananas, gather fruit, and hunt animals and fish. Crops compose up to 75% of the calories in the Yanomami diet. Protein is supplied by wild resources obtained through gathering, hunting, and fishing.
Plantains and grubs are common sources of food, and are staples in the Yanomami diet. Yanomami woman weaves a basket at the maloca do Eduardo in Brazil, June 1999. While the men hunt, the women and young children go off in search of termite nests and other grubs, which will later be roasted around family hearths. Each family has its own hearth ...
They began living near each other and consummated the marriage when she was about 14, as is typical in Yanomami culture. [3] However, the Yanomami people do not record individuals' ages beyond two years, making her exact age difficult to determine; Good himself later estimated these ages to be closer to 12-13 and 15-16, respectively. [6]
The Yanomami Indigenous Territory (Portuguese: Terra Indígena Yanomami) is an indigenous territory in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil. It overlaps with several federal or state conservation units. It is home to Yanomami and Ye'kuana people. There are ongoing conflicts with an overlapping national forest in which mining was permitted.
Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (original Italian title Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi) [1] is a biography of Helena Valero, a mixed-race mestizo woman [2] [3] who was captured in the 1930s as a girl by the Kohorochiwetari, a tribe of the Yanomami indigenous people, living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela ...
For about the first hour of their documentary “The Falling Sky,” Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha introduce us to the traditions and ongoing plight of the Yanomami ...
The book is an anthropological study of the Yanomami people whom Chagnon observed. As the book title implies, Chagnon characterized them as very violent, with said violence serving the purpose related to natural selection: as noted by a reviewer, "the men who killed the most enemies, [Chagnon] asserted, tended to have more wives and children — so passing on the genes that made the successful ...
Jacques Lizot (11 February 1938 – 22 June 2022 [1]) was a French anthropologist and linguist.He lived among the Yanomami people in Venezuela for over 20 years, documenting their culture and language.