Womenfolk of the South American Yanomami indigenous people
The Yanomami people are an indigenous group who live in the Amazon Rainforest along the borders of Venezuela and Brazil.[1] There are estimated to be only approximately 35,000 indigenous people remaining.[2] They are interfluvial Indians who live in small villages along the Mavaca and Orinoco Rivers, with each village consisting of a single shabono, or communal dwelling.[3] Largely uncontacted by the outside world, the Yanomami have been affected by illnesses introduced by gold miners since the 1980s.[4] Anthropological studies have emphasized that the Yanomami are a violent people, and although this can be true, the women of the Yanomami culture generally abstain from violence and warfare. Although males dominate the Yanomami culture, Yanomami women play an important role in sustaining their lifestyle.
Yanomami women decorate their faces with sticks that pierce the cheeks and lip. Photo taken in Homoxi, Brazil, June 1997.
^Chagnon, Napoleon A. (1974). Studying the Yanomamo. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
^Povos Indigenas no Brasil: Yanomami (2011)
^Gordon MacMillan (1995). At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, People, and Land in the Brazilian Amazon. NY: Columbia University Press.
^Dennison Berwick (1992). Savages: The Life and Killing of the Yanomami. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd.
true, the women of the Yanomami culture generally abstain from violence and warfare. Although males dominate the Yanomami culture, Yanomamiwomen play an...
Brazil. The ethnonym Yanomami was produced by anthropologists on the basis of the word yanõmami, which, in the expression yanõmami thëpë, signifies "human...
displacements and other major human rights violations took place in the Brazilian Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Such events reportedly started or were aggravated...
Forest, a narrative of living among the Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan Amazon rainforest. The title is the Yanomami word for shelter, shabono. Though the...
a girl by the Yanomami, an indigenous tribe living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. When Yanomami tribes fought and...
Andujar co-founded the Comissão Pró-Yanomami (CCPY), an advocacy organization that supports the rights of the Yanomami people. The daughter of a Hungarian...
of South Sudan, the Māori of New Zealand, the Dugum Dani of Papua, the Yanomami (dubbed "the Fierce People") of the Amazon. The culture of inter-tribal...
1980s up to 6000 thousand gold prospectors entered Yanomami territory bringing diseases the Yanomami had no immunity to, the prospectors shot them and...
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socio-biological analyses, he advanced the argument that violence among the Yanomami is fueled by an evolutionary process in which successful warriors have...
(2001). Consuming Grief. University of Texas Press. "Endocannibalism of the Yanomami". Users.rcn.com. Retrieved 31 March 2010. Wadsworth, J. D. F.; Joiner,...
death penalty and defended the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanomami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of...
especially in Asia (Siberia - in the Yakutsk area), Africa, and South America (Yanomami). The Salesian Bulletin is now published in fifty-two editions, in thirty...
providing humanitarian aid to immigrants in vulnerable situations. The Yanomami, an indigenous tribe residing in the Amazon region spanning between Brazil...
deal with the humanitarian crisis. Between 2019 and 2023, a total of 570 Yanomami children died from malnutrition, hunger and mercury contamination. President...
between Brazil and Venezuela have recounted constant infighting in the Yanomami tribes. More than a third of the Yanomamo males, on average, died from...
bread-like staple. Indigenous communities, such as the Ye-Kuana, Kari-Ña, Yanomami, Guarao or Warao descended from the Caribe or Arawac nations, still make...
with special focus on the Yanomami people living in Venezuela and Brazil. She founded the non-profit organization Yanomami-Hilfe e.V. in 2006 to help...
ancient Tupi people of the Brazilian coast used to do this as well. The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela build a round hut with a thatched roof that...
titled, The dynamics of malaria infection and disease among the Venezuelan Yanomami Amerindians. Laserson worked in the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination...
France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and among the native Yanomami Indians of Amazon forest in South America. The rates of extrapair paternity...
men and women is still common for Mursi, Surma, Nuba, Karimojong, Kirdi, Dinka and sometimes Maasai people in Africa, as well as Matses, Yanomami, Suruwaha...
Lindenbaum 2004, p. 478. Woznicki, Andrew N. (1998). "Endocannibalism of the Yanomami". The Summit Times. 6 (18–19). Dow, James W. "Cannibalism". In Tenenbaum...
prevent economic operations there. In Venezuela some groups from the Hoti, Yanomami, and Piaroa tribes live in relative isolation. The Ministry of Indigenous...
in the Amazon. The Yanomami men killed children while raiding enemy villages. Helena Valero, a Brazilian woman kidnapped by Yanomami warriors in the 1930s...
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