Video / Film Information

Yanomamö: A Multidisciplinary Study
(1970, 45 min., VC 1290)

Cultures
• Yanomamö (Venezuela)
• Orinoco River peoples

Terms / Concepts:
• ethnographic analogy
• interdisciplinary research
• hukura
• anthropometric measurements
• slash and burn ("swidden") agriculture
• population structure (birth rates, death rates. . . .)
• invention, diffusion, migration
• trade / trade routes, reciprocity,

Individuals:
• Napoleon A. Chagnon

Publications::
• Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1967. "Yanomamö -- The Fierce People." Natural HIstory Magazine 76:1:22-31.
• Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1968. Yanomamö The Fierce People. NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
• Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1968. "Yanomamö Social Organization and Warfare in War: The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression by Morton Fried, Marvin Harris, and Robert Murphy (eds.). NY: Natural History Press.
• Studying the Yanomamö. NY: Hold, Rinehart and Winston.
• "The Ecology of Swidden Cultivation in the Upper Orinoco Rain Forest, Venezuela." The Geographical Review 64:4:475-495.
• Kensinger, Kenneth M. 1971. Review. American Anthropologist 73:500-502.

Notes:
• N.B. what geneticist Jameas V. Neel says when they're loading the boats.
• N.B. importance of kinship, child spacing, fertility differences, village fission / fusion, "disease pressures" (measles, maleria, yellow fever), "stress," polygamy. . . .
• Post-Columbian introductions: "The Yanomamó are not 'uncontacted primitive man' [sic.]."
  • cooking bananas are not indigenous
  • "a battered machete or two" arrived early on through various trade routes.
• Map of Venezuela
• Oronoco River