Yanomamo

I plan to revisit the controversy in light of what I have learned about evolutionary psychology, particularly through my reading of Jared Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee" but want to start off by posting some excerpts from the fifth edition of Chagnon's "Yanomamo", a book that was titled "Yanomamo: the fierce people" in its initial publication in 1977.

Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 2009

If Tuillie's tool were to be the engine of his own destruction, I thought he'd have gotten gangrene after a candiru fish swam up his urethra on an ethnobotanical tour of the Amazon to consume rare psychoactives with the shamen of violent rainforest tribes like the Yanomamo.

Ramona at the Funeral Thomas Pluck 2011

In most traditional cultures the name they call themselves — Masaai, Yanomamo, whatever — that's the same word forhumanin their language.

In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1) Jason Radak 2010

The same for, say, Indonesia-to-Australia, or Yanomamo Indians vs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case Against the Libertarian Case Against Hispanic Immigration: 2009

The Yanomamo would solve these contentions with a spear through the thorax.

"The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009

Seek the Sybil, get ouija bored, read tea leaves, enema droppings, cowpats and clouds, Yanomamo visions ... search the Hong Kong opium dens.

She tolled me 2009

The Yanomamo would settle the contentiousness of this thread with a series of chest-pounding duels.

"The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009

It's very likely that the Yanomamo - people thought of as living as their pre-contact ancestors did, some of the earth's last hunter-gatherers - are in fact closer to the holocaust survivors I mentioned earlier.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

About a third of all male Yanomamo are victims of homicide.

"The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009

"The Yanomamo would settle the contentiousness of this thread with a series of chest-pounding duels."

"The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009