In early 2002, an elder from a Yanomami village deep in the Brazilian rain forest traveled more than 2,700 miles to a conference at Cornell University. In his public remarks — which were made in his ...

In the vast wilderness of the rainforest in the south of Venezuela, near the origins of the Orinoco, live the Yanomami Indians, the most isolated people in South America. Their language alone reflects ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

ARGUABLY the most famous ethnography ever, Napoleon Chagnon’s Yanomami: The fierce people has been a course classic since it appeared in 1968, and has influenced thousands. It, and Changon’s ...

The Yanomami are probably the last example of the myriad Indian tribes that once lived in isolated harmony with the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. As such, devoted to hunting and fishing and ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...