A Savage Encounter Western Contact and the Yanomami War Complex (original) (raw)

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This study analyzes the complex relationship between Western contact and the Yanomami war systems, focusing on the impacts of historical events such as slavery, the rubber boom, and mission establishment. It emphasizes the political history of the Yanomami and how these interactions shaped their society and warfare dynamics. Key findings demonstrate that the Western goods and relationships initiated significant changes in exchange patterns and conflict involvement.

History Explanation and War among the Yanomami a Response to Chagnons Noble Savages

Why do people make war? Is it in human nature? Publication of Napoleon Chagnon's Noble Savages resurrects old arguments, largely displaced in recent times by study of larger scale political violence, and sidelined by more contemporary theoretical currents. This shift ceded the human nature issue to a variety of biologistic approaches, for which Chagnon's image of the Orinoco-Mavaca Yanomamo is foundational. Chagnon proposes that war is driven by reproductive competition, with men fighting over women, revenge, and status, among a 'Stone Age' people living as they had for countless generations, in a tribal world untouched by larger history or the world system. This paper challenges each of those claims, and offers alternatives that provide a very different view of Yanomami warfare, and why men fight wars.

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