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There are many differences between the South American Yanomamo culture

and the North American culture that we have adapted to, but just at there is

culture diversity between us, we have some similarities. The ethnography,

which is chose, was "Yanomamo" written by Napoleon A. Chagnon,

anthropologists. Chagnon tells us how to it was to live among the Yanomamo

family, political and warfare system versus the American Culture. The

Yanomamo are of patrilineal culture, male oriented and very sexist. For some

reason they believe that, they are superior to women, so do some men in

American culture. However, they are jolted back reality when the law gets

involved, unfortunately Yanomamo men don't have this wake up call.

Marriage is cross-cultural perspective. Yanomamo marriages are much......

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