The City Of Yaupi, Ecuador And Peru

The Yanomamo are a tribe of twenty thousand who live in about two hundred and fifty widely dispersed villages in Brazil and Venezuela. It was first thought that the Yanomamo were a group of hunter-gatherers, but contrary to that thought they actually cultivate their own crops for food. They also hunt and forage, but only as needed.

Throughout the article, Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo, by Napoleon A. Chagnon the reader is able to read along as if they were a real anthropologist’s on a journey throughout the villages of tropical forests in unoccupied lands. Changnon begins his writing explaining the culture and life style of the Yanamamö people. How their daily lives focus on gardening, hunting, visiting and completing tasks to get through the day. He describes their short life expectancy and the risks of violence between surrounding villages. The amount of men is exceedingly larger than the women, and often time’s men have multiple wives. Changon describes how each village is apart of broader political demographic. However he expresses how difficult it is to understand all of this simply from his descriptions.

Shaki, or Napoleon A. Chagnon’s 15 month enculturation with the Yanomamo tribe, Bisaasi-teri is characterized by fear, discomfort, loneliness, nosiness, and invaluable experiences through relationships and modesty about human culture. Chagnon documents the experience through the struggle and discovery surrounding his proposed research, as his lifestyle gradually comes in sync with the natural functions of his community. Much of his focus and time was consumed by identification of genealogical records, and the establishment of informants and methods of trustworthy divulgence. Marriage, sex, and often resulting violence are the foremost driving forces within Yanomamo, and everything that we

Culture makes up who we are, what we believe and how we behave. About four years ago, I had the opportunity to live in Ecuador. I found the relationships and communication perspective to be very interesting and after spending two years there, I was able to notice several distinct intercultural differences between the American and Ecuadorian cultures. Since my analysis of Ecuador is only based off of my personal experience, I’ve also invited my friend Luis Salas from Quito, Ecuador who is currently attending Brigham Young University to give his own insights. By gaining his perspective of what it’s like to live in America as an

     The Andes Mountains rise through much of central Ecuador. About half the people live in the valleys and on the plateaus of the Andes. Quito, Ecuador's capital, lies more than 9,000 feet (2,700 meters) above sea level on an Andean plateau. A flat, partly forested, tropical plain extends west of the Andes along the Pacific Ocean. This coastal plain is developing faster than any other part of the country. About half the Ecuadorian people live there.

To start off, one of the dominant troubles people go through in Ecuador would be the social class. Just like in reality, appearances can tell people what social class a person is involved with without actually telling them (Wright). Just like in The Queen of Water, Virginia is mistaken as a mestizo teenager when she is actually an indigenous girl. If she had said what class she was in, she may have been treated differently. However, some mestizo Ecuadorians respect the indigenous people for who they are (Resau and Farinango ). Virginia, the main girl in the book, made many friends at her school and when they found out she was indigenous, they never stopped treating her differently; they treated her with the same respect as they had when they first met her. Also, the Indians and women in

Thull, is an area where the violence of Kohistani was studied by R. Lincoln Keiser. In this region, the Kohistani, initially did not believe in bloodshed in order to solve conflicts. As elements in their traditional lives changed, Kohistani violence became more and more prevalent in their culture. Three specific changes were the main reasons for the growth in violence. One change led to another change, which then led to a third change. These changes to the traditional culture of the Kohistani were the reason for increased violence among the Kohistani in Thull.

Peru is rich with minerals, natural resources, and precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, timber, iron ore, coal, potash, phosphate, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources have created Peru's infrastructure jump in growth in recent years. Peru has been building roads that go through different types of terrain to include mountains, rainforest and urban areas. Peruvians have updated their railway systems that transport civilians to and from their jobs all throughout the country. Although Peru is wealthy; unfortunately the majority of this income from these natural resources does not make it to the miners and farmers that work long days in order to acquire the resources for global sale. Many of Peru's citizens still live in poverty

Today we live in a globalized world, the world is interlinked on so many social, political, and economic levels that everyone’s culture has somewhat bled into each other’s. So it is extremely rare for anthropologist to find tribes like the Yanomami. “The Yanomami are a tribe of roughly twenty thousand Amazonian Indians living in 200 to 250 villages along the border between Venezuela and Brazil.” (Borofsky, R., & Albert, B. 2005). The Yanomami have been studied by anthropologist since the 1950’s and are said to be important to anthropologist because of the unique lifestyle they live mostly unpolluted by the western world (Tiffany,S., Adams, K., 2002). When people are as isolated as the Yanomami, it gives anthropologist an amazing opportunity to study the unique development of a society. A product of society is social construction, a social construct is basically a set of rules that a society establishes for themselves over time, the members of that society may follow those rules but the rules aren’t inherent. The world that we know and the most rules that we follow are socially constructed. One of the biggest social constructions is gender, gender is a social construct that can seep into every area of life, this paper will explore the Yanomamis childrearing, politics and religion through the lens of gender. While the Yanomami live very unique lives that we can and should learn so much from, today the Yanomamis way of life is under threat.

Located in the Amazon Basin of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil, the Yanomamo are an indigenous group numbering close to 23,000. They utilize slash and burn horticulture, hunting and gathering to survive within their ecosystem. Napoleon Chagnon termed the group, “fierce people”, citing their numerous disputes within non-allied villages. Aside from their periodic warfare, they have managed to build and sustain their unique culture through adaptations to their environment for generations.

The moment I arrived in Quito Ecuador, I threw up. After hours of delayed flights, I was confident that I had made the wrong decision leaving the country. Regardless, I trudged on to my destination: a remote village hidden in the rainforest of Ecuador. The occupants lived with next to nothing, not even a decent bathroom. In fact, that’s why I was there. I was part of a group working to bring a plumbing system to the natives. We worked for hours every day, digging trenches and hauling rocks from a river. With mud caked into my pores, my only relief was a rinse in a cold, dirty river at the end of every day. I had never felt better. The community was so thankful for everything they had, even if it wasn’t much. Through them, I learned

Upon seeking further research, Euclides de Cunha describes Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald’s reaching out to the Mashco Piro, “muster[ing] his armed med to intimidate the natives into cooperating” (Anderson 17). Subsequent to swift interactions, Cunha describes how Fitzcarrald found error in the Mashco Piro’s assumption of superiority, proceeding to kill approximately one hundred tribal members. Although the Mashco Piro were not prepared for the execution of many of their members, the skill set to communicate appropriately was unavailable. In addition to the repercussions of an individualistic approach to the Mashco Piro, hostile behavior from themselves to neighboring tribes in the Madre de Dios region of Peru further deteriorates a hope for tranquility among the forest. Nena, a humble mother living in Diamante, gave proof to the poignant threat to her family via patterns of twins on her vegetable patch (Anderson 49). The playful nature within the presence of youth among Nena’s immediate family was halted since the Mashco Piro indirectly threatened the perseverance of Nena and her family’s daily life. While the majority of indigenous tribes will thrive upon their own excavation of natural resources and interaction with the immediate nature around them, the Mashco Piro have discovered alternate methods of flourishing

The Yanomami Tribe of Brazil and Venezuela has been in existence for over 15,000 years and have migrated between Asia and America to South America. The current population of the tribe is at a low of approximately 32,000 living in two hundred to two hundred fifty villages. In my research I will explore some events in the history of the Yanomami tribe the have contributed to the reduction of the tribe and challenges that women of the tribe

Since 5000 BCE indigenous Arawak, Taino and Ciboney people have inhabited the island where Haiti is located. Around 300 BCE, the indigenous began to settle and establish small farming towns. In these small towns, the main economy was farming, fishing and the trade of various luxury goods such as gold and jewelry. The indigenous people called their island Quisqueya. As the years went by, the indigenous developed their society more. However, their growth was interrupted by Spanish conquest.

The Chachi are an indigenous group living in Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul reserve. Maria Fadiman did a study on Cultivated Food Plants: Culture and Gendered Spaces of The Colonists and the Chachi in Ecuador, Fadiman basically compared the colonists of Ecuador and the indigenous Chachi based on the how, what, and who cultivated foods in both societies. The Chachi appear to be an agricultural society, they tend to domesticate their animals and have farms close or distant from home. Fadiman found that in colonist societies the woman focused on staying and working near the home, while the men went on to work farther away. Although in the Chachi it is the complete opposite, were the men stay near the home and the women go the furthest away (Fadiman