'Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo' byNapoleon Chagnon

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1. 'Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo' by
Napoleon Chagnon

The Extensive Infusion Of One Culture Into Another Culture Without Consent.

The Likelihood That A Particular Measure Would Produce The Same Results If The Measure Were Repeated.
This article explores the fieldwork experience of Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist, among the Yanomamo, a group of tropical rain forest Indians in Venezuela.
· The Yanomamo are isolated from contact with non-Indians and are supposed to be 'fierce' and war like.
· They don't wear much clothing and their sanitation leaves a lot to be desired. This is mostly an adaptation to living in a hot, humid rain forest.
· Their social life is organized around kinship, ancestral descent, marriage exchanges and charismatic headmen.
· They use a system of graded threats and violence to test people and in their personal interactions.
Chagnon's perceptions, He was horrified and wanted to go home! His reception by nearly naked tribe members who were high on hallucinogenic drugs with spears and arrows pointed at him was startling.
· He experienced culture shock about his daily life in particular, things such as eating, bathing, doing laundry, privacy and loneliness.
· He was uncomfortable, between the insects, the pushy and demanding Yanomamo and the lack of hygiene, he was ready to snap.
· He noted the important role that aggression played in their culture. This was very different from his experience as an American.
· But once he had adapted in his everyday life, things were a little better, but not the constant begging, demands and aggressive behavior.
· He finally realized that he had to pass this constant testing by the Yanomamo; he had to be like them in order to get a bit of peace and successfully conduct his fieldwork.
Goals and practices of Chagnon's fieldwork
· His living with the Yanomamo is an example of fieldwork in cultural anthropology and he was a participant observer in their lives and villages.
· The goal of his fieldwork was to collect genealogies and learn about kinship and marriage practices.
· This was extraordinarily difficult because of their taboos against saying the names of dead or prominent individuals.
· He spent five months collecting what he thought was good data, only to find out it was an intricate ruse and he had to start all over again.
· While his goal was to understand family and kinship systems, in order to understand these systems, he first had to learn all about their entire cultural system. Essentially, he had to learn how to be a Yanomamo.

A status involving specific action or inaction.

'Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo' byNapoleon Chagnon

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