Word: nomam
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Having lived and studied among the Yãnomamö Indians of South America, I feel most concerned about your article, which appeared under the disturbing title "Beastly or Manly...
...nomamö happen to have been studied at a time when their patterns of warfare and raiding were still intact. It also seems to be the case that outsiders came to know them during an unusually tumultuous period. As a result, disproportionate attention has been focused on the role of aggression and violence in Yãnomamö society...
...light of pop ethology and sociobiology, the Yãnomamö are seen not only as "wild Indians" but as one short step away from a baboon troop. The familiar tendency to look upon other groups of people as being less fully human than ourselves here masquerades as science...
...would like to make it clear that the Yãnomamö are not the missing link...
...missionary at one time near the geographical center of the Yãnomamö Indians, and knowing them as friends, I am aware of contradictions to Dr. Chagnon's conclusions. Here, simplified for brevity, are just a few: 1) hearing of female infanticide surprised the Yanomamo people; 2) wars seldom begin by wife stealing; 3) families of warlike men are not necessarily larger than those of less warlike...