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Yanomamo

Yanomamo
Mark Gomez
ANT101
Prof. Mario Tovar
April 4, 2011

Yanomamo 1
Yanomamo are natives of the Amazon Rainforest of Venzuela and gardners.   The United States first made contact with this horticultural society in 1929.   They are a small society with about 12000 people and live in small homes in shapes of cones.   Yanomamo are not update with technology and use passed generation methods that have always worked.     They believe in cross-cousin marriage or called bilateral in which they marry cousins who are of the Iroquoian people.   Yanomamo are also known as the “foot people”.  
Yanomamo are firms believers of kinship.   Yanomamo are known to have a well balanced relationship with intervillage relations.   They believe in gift giving when having feast. The give gifts are given are tools, baskets, dogs, and   weapons.   ( Nowark   & Laird 2010) Yanomamo have feast to keep the moral and peace between the village. In   every village the people averages about 100 to 125.   Each town is paced about only a few miles between one another.   Another reason they have feast is to develop and strengthen political alliances in case of warefare.  
Yanomamo believe that men are highly valued because they are fearless and strong and put fear the eyes of the enemy.   (NowarK & Laird 2010) Yanomamo also have a headman.   The purpose of the headman is to use is knowledge and guidance to direct the village in the right direction.   If you are a headman you have to keep order in the village, be a peacemaker, and valiant warrior.   Yanomamo are very family oriented and rarely does one own their own land.   Usually their home or land is passed down from their kin.  
In my family or culture we are update with the American style of living and technology.   I still go back to my heritage from time but as for my self I’ve pulled away from the mexican ways of life.   I try to be better and use the Word of God to direct my every path.   I do live a balanced life by...