The Influence Of The Yanomami Tribe
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The Yanomami are a South American tribe of 26,000 that live in the Amazon basin in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Some sources claim that they have been influenced by European contact since the early seventeenth century, but it is clear that they have remained isolated and undisturbed to remain primitive, culturally intact and, retain their indigenous language and patterns to this day. They have their own world and its view, and believe that their world is the prime one. Villages of varying sizes, that depend on the size of the population, as small as 40 or as large as 300, are built at varying distances from one another. Not only the villages vary in size, they also have differing degrees of social closeness as well. “Those that harbor