Yanomamö : a multidisciplinary study /

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Imprint:[Watertown, MA] : Documentary Educational Resources, 2004.
Description:1 streaming video (45 min.).
Language:English
Series:[Yanomamo series]
Ethnographic video online.
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Format: E-Resource Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8529625
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Other authors / contributors:Neel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000
Asch, Timothy.
Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and Medicine.
Notes:Documentary.
Principally funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Biology and Medicine with additional financial support from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Originally filmed in 1964 and issued as a motion picture in 1968.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Summary:Describes the field techniques and findings of teams from such disciplines as human genetics, anthropology, epidemiology, dentistry, linguistics, and medicine as they conduct a biological-anthropological study of the Yanomamo Indians in the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil. Also includes a sketch of Yanomamo culture and society.