“Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo” Summary Essay Example

is tools, begged for goods from Napoleon, the rich “subhuman,” and mocked him. In an attempt to get along with them, he would give in to their demands for tools or food, but soon found this to only make the problem worse, as they would come back demanding bigger and better goods. Through this he found he needed to be just as cunning to be accepted into their culture.

In an effort to gather information on genealogies, he went about collecting the names of the villagers. Sadly this turned into an opportunity for the people to make up whatever hilarious and crude name they wanted, so he could never trace it to another person. They would then laugh uproariously as he would accidentally call people names such as “hairy vagina.” To counteract these attempts, he meticulously chose people that he felt were being truthful or