Yanomamo Warfare YANOMAMO WARFARE A constant cannot explain
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Yanomamo Warfare
YANOMAMO WARFARE A constant cannot explain a variable. Proximate vs. Ultimate cause Positive vs. Negative feedback systems Resource Competition Protein Scarcity vs. Protein Deficiancy * * * Infrastructure Superstructure Resource Competition Conflict Warfare and Alliances Weiteri Complex
Chagnon vs. Harris Causes of Yanomamo Warfare Chagnon: --Fighting over Women --”We like meat, but we like women better. ” Harris: --Protein Scarcity --Mechanism of Population Control --Male Supremacy Complex --female infanticide
Chagnon vs. Harris Problems with Their Explanations Chagnon: --Female shortage created by Yanomamo themselves. --Only raid villages for women with which raiding already exists. (Warfare, therefore, not explained. ) --proximate explanation -- emic explanation Harris: --Protein Scarcity vs. Protein Deficiency (Big Mac) --Yanomamo Shamatari population increase -- from 200 to 2, 000 people, 1900 - 1970
Evidence of Protein Scarcity 1. Five-day hunting expeditions with no success. 2. Primary game animal: Monkeys and other solitary animals 3. Lower protein consumption a. than other Amazonian Indians. b. Than the Dobe Ju/’hoansi 4. Reliance on insects for food. (cost/benefit) 5. Evidence of recent adaptation a. Boil bananas only b. Fish only with poison c. Poorly constructed canoes
Amazonian Indians Protein Consumption
Alliance Spiral Warfare Spiral Nomohoni Genearalized Reciprocity Reciprocal Woman Exchange Raid The Feast Spear Fights Balanced Mutual Feasting Ax Fights Reciprocity Club Fights Side-Slapping Duels Negative Reciprocity Sporadic and Reciprocal Trading Chest-Pounding Duels Yanomamo Politics: Alliance vs. Warfare
House Temperature Decreases Furnace Restores House Temperature Negative Feedback System
Neutron Bomb Positive Feedback System M. I. R. V. I. C. B. M. Hydrogen Bomb Atomic Bomb
Yanomamo Positive-Feedback System
Population Pressure Central Villages Larger Villages 40 – 250 Peripheral Villages Smaller Villages 25 - 100 Villages Closer Villages Dispersed higher density lower density Warfare Constant Raiding less Frequent Patanowa-teri raided 25 times in one year some villages not involved in raids for over 5 years Alliance System elaborate absent
Population Pressure (cont. ) Central Villages Peripheral Villages Headman greater authority during warfare little authority Cultivation more important less important Fighting more elaborate less elaborate Weiteri Complex more pronounced Weiteri Complex less pronounced
Population Pressure (cont. ) Central Villages Peripheral Villages Female Infanticide greater M/F 0 -14: 157 / 100 all ages: 130 / 100 less M/F 0 -14: 121 / 100 all ages: 115 / 100 Polyandry absent practiced sexual liaisons is primary source of conflict in village polyandry and sexual liaisons institutionalized
Yanomamo Village Expansion
Yanomamo Sociopolitical Evolution
- If you can't measure it you can't manage it quote
- Doth meaning
- You cant manage what you cant measure
- If you can't measure it you can't control it
- Postulates of vb theory
- Formation constant vs equilibrium constant
- Constant to pointer in c
- Constant pointer and pointer to constant
- Equilibrium of chemical reactions
- Constant pointer and pointer to constant
- What is pointer to pointer in c
- Big k vs little k chemistry
- Filter press equation
- Is ag an ion
- Constant pointer and pointer to constant
- Solubility and complex ion equilibria
- R constant