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A 10 page research paper discussing the history, culture, anthropology, and social evolution of three groups of Native Indians : The Yanomamo (regarded as one of the most violent societies on Earth !), the Zapotecs (known for architecture & urban development), and the Yucatecs (relevant to Mayans) Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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male deaths are the result of violence and nearly 70 percent of the men and women over the age of 40 have lost a close relative to homicide. Most of
the deaths occur in endless cycles of "blood revenge" attacks between warring villages, usually armed with arrows. (Chagnoy, 1993). Now an anthropologist who
has studied the Yanomamo has advanced a new theory to explain both the violence and an element of human nature that he suspects may pervade all societies. Yanomamo men kill,
according to the theory, because the act wins such high social status in this polygamous society that the killers enjoy more wives and children than men who have not killed.
In other words, sexual competition can be so powerful a force that men will engage in social behaviors, even highly disruptive behaviors, if that
will win them advantages in their striving for wives. Yanomamo marriages are arranged by the womans father, who usually prefers to marry her to a man who, in industrialized societies,
would be called a war hero. Although the Yanomamo say they live in fear of the violence, the men who have killed are so highly regarded that they have,
on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These numbers
are extremely significant and really stunning," said Napoleon A. Chagnon, an anthropologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara who has studied the Yanomamo for 23 years and described
his new theory in a recent issue of Science as well as in a re-printing of his book which I used for much of my pertinent research. "Violence is a
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