How Cultural Ecology Effects Kinship And Warfare In The Yanomamo By Chagnon

In Napoleon Chagnon’s book “The Yanomamo”, Chagnon explains to his readers the Yanomamo life and how this tribe survives living in the Amazon. Chagnon explains many of the cultural elements such as kinship or warfare and how these elements work together to help the Yanomamo culture survive in the Amazon as well. In the book Napoleon Chagnon explains kinship as the social relationships that form an important role in human lives and in society within that culture. Kinship is blood relationships that tie in with your family and its characteristics, as Chagnon explains. Warfare is the set of techniques or strategies and actions used to conduct war which is often seen a lot in Yanomamo life, according to Chagnon in his book. Kinship and warfare are both elements in which help Yanomamo culture survive. In this essay I’m gonna explain how the approach of cultural ecology effects kinship and warfare and how these elements work together to maintain Yanomamo life.

Cultural ecology is how this culture adapts to its surroundings and the cultural environment in the Amazon, Chagnon explains. According to Chagnon in his book, Chagnon explains cultural ecology as life to the Yanomamo. Napoleon Chagnon writes, “...people everywhere must come to grips with the physical environments within which they live in order to survive and produce offspring, who carry on their traditions” (Chagnon 45). This quote explaining what cultural ecology is to him and his readers and they way the Yanomamo use it to live in the Amazon. Chagnon also writes, “relationship between ecology, culture, and village dispersion over the landscape, describing how the Yanomamo settlements fission and relocate in new areas” (Chagnon 45). This explaining the relationships between culture and cultural ecology within the Yanomamo