| Foreword | |
| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Prologue | 1 |
| The Killing of Ruwahiwa | 2 |
| Ch. 1 | Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo | 5 |
| Vignette | 5 |
| Collecting the Data in the Field | 8 |
| Beyond the Bisaasi-teri and into the Remote Villages | 31 |
| Ch. 2 | Cultural Ecology | 45 |
| The Physical Environment | 45 |
| Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening | 60 |
| The Cultural Ecology of Settlement Pattern | 71 |
| New Data from 1990 and 1991 Fieldwork | 81 |
| The Great Protein Debate: Yanomamo Data and Anthropological Theory | 91 |
| Ch. 3 | Myth and Cosmos | 99 |
| The Spiritual Environment | 99 |
| Ch. 4 | Social Organization and Demography | 121 |
| Daily Social Life | 122 |
| Social Structure | 137 |
| The Demographic Basis of Social Behavior | 144 |
| Ch. 5 | Political Alliances, Trading, and Feasting | 159 |
| General Features of Alliances | 159 |
| Trading and Feasting in Alliance Formation | 162 |
| Historical Background to a Particular Feast | 165 |
| The Feast | 170 |
| The Chest-Pounding Duel | 178 |
| Ch. 6 | Yanomamo Warfare | 185 |
| Levels of Violence | 185 |
| The Raid and Nomohori | 189 |
| A Specific War | 191 |
| General Comments on Yanomamo Violence | 204 |
| Ch. 7 | The Acceleration of Change and Emerging Crises | 207 |
| Gradual versus Catastrophic Change | 207 |
| Variation in Degree and Kind of Contact | 208 |
| The 1987 Brazilian Gold Rush | 211 |
| Kaobawa's Village | 217 |
| Reduction and Concentration of Villages | 222 |
| Age/Sex Distributions and Mortality Patterns | 228 |
| Education and Growing Awareness of the Outside World | 231 |
| Contending Influences and Conflicting Information | 235 |
| Political, Moral, and Philosophical Dilemmas | 239 |
| The Future of the Yanomamo - and All Tribesmen | 243 |
| Glossary | 247 |
| References Cited | 249 |
| Ethnographic Films on the Yanomamo | 257 |
| Index | 260 |
Format: Textbook Hardcover, 5th ed., 280 pages
