ANTHROP 3PD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Evolutionary Anthropology, Tim Asch, Shabono
2 Nov 2017
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Indigenous group of approx. 30,000 people in amazonian regions of brazil and venezuela. It is difficult for men from other tribes to come in. Men are considered to be more powerful. Violence against women is more approved here. They remained with no sustained contact with outsiders. There was some rubber tapper interaction in the 1940"s. In the 1960"s missionaries came in and tried to christianize them. Chagnon came in the early 1960"s - mid 1990"s. Long term study of yanomamo in amazon. He said that they were incredibly violent, and he tried to come up with theories as to why this was. He turned to culture and because he was an anthropologist, he linked it to genetics. He believed that they were stuck in another time. He felt that this behaviour was from their genes. Known for evolutionary anthropology and study of warfare. This is the idea that all behaviour is a by-product of culture these people are savage.
