1 My first impression of the Yanomamö culture is that it was weird. I thought it was weird because it’s hard for me to not view them in a non-objective way. It is so obvious that our culture is superior to theirs because of the huge variety of technology and how advanced we are. The part when the author told us that the husband allows the brother to have sex with his wife made me question why I am reading this book. Honestly in our society that would be considered cheating and it is not acceptable in our society. So overall, my first impression of the Yanomamö culture was it was really weird. The video was when I started thinking the culture was weird. I was not able to view them objectively. It was difficult for me to view them without some
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He also interviews people and uses key informants to get information. Some problems the author experiences are the struggle of keeping an ethnocentric viewpoint at the beginning. In the beginning of the book, the author says” I looked up and gazed when I saw a dozen burly, naked, sweaty, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows”( Chagon 12). This shows that the author was already beginning to judge the culture, so he started off with a bias and judgmental opinion on the culture. I would consider that a problem because that shows that he is close minded and not willing to fully understand the culture. Another problem that the author faces is not being able to eat three meals a day, although he fixes the issue by eating the food in a single container and washing the dish out. The author also states the problem of food sharing with the Yanomamö people. Since food sharing is important in the Yanomamö culture, he dealt with a ton of beggars. Some of them even yelled at him. The author also states being lonely was a problem that he experienced during his field study. Since he isolated himself from his own kind for a while he was bound to become lonely eventually. Also, he talks about how the Yanomamos were persistent beggars and they often refused to accept the word no. The author tells us that …show more content…
I feel like this would be hard for everyone that has grown up in America because we grew up in a judgmental society. I would judge them mostly because the way they do things are off and could be considered weird to many people. Also, since I already have an opinion on religion and rituals it would be hard to drop my opinion on rituals and religion and view the cultures religion in a non-bias way. Also, it would be hard to keep away from an ethnocentric viewpoint. Since we come from a society with top medical advances and new technology it would be hard to not see our culture as superior to a third world culture. Another difficult aspect of conducting fieldwork for the Yanomamö would be learning the language and finding a reason to learn the language. It doesn’t seem like they’re any Yanomamö people in the United States. So you would basically learn the language only for three years and when you move back to America you would never need to use it. It would be hard for me to want to learn the language just because it would seem pointless and I would never use it in my daily life since it’s a language that isn’t spoken in America. So i wouldn’t really want to learn the language in the first
He also interviews people and uses key informants to get information. Some problems the author experiences are the struggle of keeping an ethnocentric viewpoint at the beginning. In the beginning of the book, the author says” I looked up and gazed when I saw a dozen burly, naked, sweaty, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows”( Chagon 12). This shows that the author was already beginning to judge the culture, so he started off with a bias and judgmental opinion on the culture. I would consider that a problem because that shows that he is close minded and not willing to fully understand the culture. Another problem that the author faces is not being able to eat three meals a day, although he fixes the issue by eating the food in a single container and washing the dish out. The author also states the problem of food sharing with the Yanomamö people. Since food sharing is important in the Yanomamö culture, he dealt with a ton of beggars. Some of them even yelled at him. The author also states being lonely was a problem that he experienced during his field study. Since he isolated himself from his own kind for a while he was bound to become lonely eventually. Also, he talks about how the Yanomamos were persistent beggars and they often refused to accept the word no. The author tells us that …show more content…
I feel like this would be hard for everyone that has grown up in America because we grew up in a judgmental society. I would judge them mostly because the way they do things are off and could be considered weird to many people. Also, since I already have an opinion on religion and rituals it would be hard to drop my opinion on rituals and religion and view the cultures religion in a non-bias way. Also, it would be hard to keep away from an ethnocentric viewpoint. Since we come from a society with top medical advances and new technology it would be hard to not see our culture as superior to a third world culture. Another difficult aspect of conducting fieldwork for the Yanomamö would be learning the language and finding a reason to learn the language. It doesn’t seem like they’re any Yanomamö people in the United States. So you would basically learn the language only for three years and when you move back to America you would never need to use it. It would be hard for me to want to learn the language just because it would seem pointless and I would never use it in my daily life since it’s a language that isn’t spoken in America. So i wouldn’t really want to learn the language in the first