Re: Yanomano question

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In <3uedke$qnv@newsbf02.news.aol.com> crwright@aol.com (CRWright)
writes:
>
>First of all: it is "Yanamamo" (diacritical marks excluded)...
>2nd: the seminal volume on this group is _Yanamamo: The Fierce People_
by
>Napoleon Chagnon.
>
>Also like the previous thread mentioned... a quick hop to your local
>library should help you to find the resources desired.
>
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A good (and much more up to date) book, and one that disagrees strongly
with Chagnon's volume is "Into The Heart" by Kenneth Good (1991, Simon
& Schuster, N. Y.). Good and Chagnon worked together, apparently with
bad blood between them. I think you should probably read both books so
as to at least get two opposing viewpoints.

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