Relationships betweencommunity and theenvironment
Today
•The shabono
•Family life
•Food
•Woman
•Contact with the modern world
The shabono
•The shabono is the housing theYanomami tribe live in.
•The shabono can houseanywhere from 50 to 400people
•They are constructed mainly ofthatched palm leaves and wood
•Each family has their ownsection within inside theshabono
•The only thing that separatesthese families is large woodenbeams
•The central area is used forgames, rituals and activities
Family
•Each family has its ownstorage space where they cookand eat.
•At night there is a spot for afire.
•The fire is kept going all nightand day.
•The family sleep in hammocks.
•The Yanomami Indians areknown as hunters, fishers andhorticulturists
•Woman garden ensuring theircrops are maintained
Food
•The yanomami tribe is extremely lowin salt.
•This can be attributed to theirprimitive lifestyle.
•Men hunt and fish
•Women maintain the garden
•The women grow
–Banana’s
–Sugar cane
–Mango’s
–Sweet potatoes
–Papya
•No man ever eats the meat he hashunted, he shares if with family andfriends.
•He is thanked with meat from otherhunters
Woman
•The woman areresponsible for bearingthe children.
•The woman contributegreatly to the livelyhood of the family andcommunity.
•Gardening contributesabout 80% of all food inthe community.
Contact with the modern world
Contact with the modern world
•The modern world has effected the Yanomami tribegreatly.
•The Yanomami tribe live deep within the Amazonrainforest.
•They have come in contact with illegal minersthroughout the region.
•These miners have brought deadly diseases that arestarting to destroy these tribes.
•These diseases include malaria and polluted waterwhich directly leads illness and sometimes death.
•They are also affected by tree loggers, these groupsdestroy the environment in which this tribe lives.
A day in the life
•You are a Yanomami Indian living deep in the Amazonrainforest.
•You have a friend who lives in another tribe.
•You are to write to him/her about what you do on a dailybasis.
•Example-A man from the Yanomami tribe, you wake upearly in the morning after a good sleep in your hammock.You wake to children playing in the centre of the shabono.After this you eat some breakfast, this meal consist of somegrains and fruit. After this you relax before you and theother men in the shabono go hunting. As we set off forhunting we found some foot prints of a large animal….