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The Yanomamo (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo.

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These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth.

This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995..

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Author: Napoleon A. Chagnon

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Date: Nov. 15, 1996

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