Yanomamo Kinship
Yanomamo Kinship
Yanomamo people are from Central Brazil and they are the oldest example of the pre-Columbian forest footmen. They live in the Amazon rain forest and they are considering the last to have come in contact with the modern world. ( Chagnon, Napoleon. Yanomamö, Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth 1997) They have no writing system and they have different type of dialects which they use. By having no writing system they have to use verbal commutation to give messages. It would make it hard for them to keep a record of their history. Yanomamos people live in small tribes and they sleep in huts that they refer to as shabonos. They wear little to no clothes. They spend their days gardening’s, hunting, gathering and making crafts and spending time with each other. (John D. Early, John F. Peters,The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: history, and social structure ) They have a chiefs are men who are responsible for the general knowledge and safety of the group’s women. The Yanomamo practice polygamy. Yanomamo live in constant warfare with other tribes and even within their own group.( Chagnon, Napoleon. Yanomamö, Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth 1997)Their marriages are arranged according to performances of one’s relatives in battle. The marriage is arrange by older family member such as brother , uncle or father. They have a shortage of women in their culture but men have more than one wife oddly. It such a shortage that they marry their cousin. Our cousin looks down on people marring their family members. It’s also a law for US citizen to have than one husband or wife. The Yanomanmi technology is a pole and a vine bridge. They use these things for hunting and gathering food. They have clay pots which is very fragile they use to prepare food. The men prepare the food because women are not allowed to use the pots.( www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/.../yonomamo) This is different from our culture
Yanomamo people are from Central Brazil and they are the oldest example of the pre-Columbian forest footmen. They live in the Amazon rain forest and they are considering the last to have come in contact with the modern world. ( Chagnon, Napoleon. Yanomamö, Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth 1997) They have no writing system and they have different type of dialects which they use. By having no writing system they have to use verbal commutation to give messages. It would make it hard for them to keep a record of their history. Yanomamos people live in small tribes and they sleep in huts that they refer to as shabonos. They wear little to no clothes. They spend their days gardening’s, hunting, gathering and making crafts and spending time with each other. (John D. Early, John F. Peters,The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: history, and social structure ) They have a chiefs are men who are responsible for the general knowledge and safety of the group’s women. The Yanomamo practice polygamy. Yanomamo live in constant warfare with other tribes and even within their own group.( Chagnon, Napoleon. Yanomamö, Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth 1997)Their marriages are arranged according to performances of one’s relatives in battle. The marriage is arrange by older family member such as brother , uncle or father. They have a shortage of women in their culture but men have more than one wife oddly. It such a shortage that they marry their cousin. Our cousin looks down on people marring their family members. It’s also a law for US citizen to have than one husband or wife. The Yanomanmi technology is a pole and a vine bridge. They use these things for hunting and gathering food. They have clay pots which is very fragile they use to prepare food. The men prepare the food because women are not allowed to use the pots.( www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/.../yonomamo) This is different from our culture