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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 806–808.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Sister M. Noel Menezes; RSM Individual and Society in Guiana . By Riviere Peter . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 124 . Cloth. Tales of the Yanomami. Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest . By Lizot Jacques...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 499–500.
Published: 01 August 1993
... European colonies and states: the Caribs and Arawaks of South America (Whitehead), the Iroquois of North America (Abler), the Asháninka in eastern Peru (Brown and Fernández), the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco (Ferguson), and the Mount Hagen people of modern New Guinea (Strathern). These accounts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 530–531.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Gordon MacMillan begins with some short and succinct background on the various niches where humans have settled in the basin. Chapter 2 tells a remarkable story of the intense gold rush in Roraima, much of it inside the Yanomami reserve. It reads like an adventure story, almost impossible to put down...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 779–780.
Published: 01 November 1999
... historiography. Anthropologists will no doubt want more complete treatment of the delicate subject of ritual cannibalism (e.g., recent studies of Yanomami, Araweté, and Tupí-Guaraní practices). On myth and oral history, Stanfield writes that “myth defines, teaches, and preserves culture and historical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (2): 295–325.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Yanomami, although that Indian nation was known as Waika until recently. The Pemon (also known as Taurepáng or Arekuna) of the Venezuelan Gran Sabana use “Waika” as a nickname for the Akawaio and Patamona. However, I think that the Waika mentioned here were probably Shiriana and thus close relatives...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 461–489.
Published: 01 August 2021
... evacuations were requested. 86 Various Indigenous groups continued to use this strategy of negotiation via airplane hijacking over the years. As recently as September 2018, the Yanomami held three airplanes and several federal employees hostage to demand increased access to health care. 87...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 721–751.
Published: 01 November 2000
.... Arens’s examination of the cannibal is as an exemplary case of this process but anthropology’s approaches to gender, race or warfare also have often been highly prejudicial to the human subjects of those musings. So much is evident from the case of the Yanomami of Brazil and Venezuela whose representation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (1): 1–153.
Published: 01 February 1996
... of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest, trans, by Ernest Simon, reviewed, 66:806-8 Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, The, 1830-1930, by Jane M. Rausch, reviewed, 74:528-29 Llerena, Maria, trans., Cuba 1933: Students, Yankees, and Soldiers, by Justo Carrillo, reviewed, 75:490-91 Llorens Figueroa...