"The Yanomamo Indians" 2nd part

During his visit to the region, Chagnon faced cultural shock (the distortion that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and no longer depend on their taken-fro-granted assumptions about life). It was not what he had expected. He provides the reader with several of the Indians’ descriptions most of which displayed bravery and ferocity. He also describes them as very demanding in the way that they would not accept “no” as an answer when they asked for something: food, a machete, or tools. The Yanomamo Indians would not stop asking after they had been refused for about six months. Because of Chagnon’s new attitudes and behavior, the Yanomamo Indians started to like him. They became friends because they had more things in common…These Indians acted aggressively to people from other tribes and sometimes even with their close ones: their wives and brothers. The Indians were aggressive to their wives by beating them several times. Another important aspect from the Yanomamo Indians is that for them was common to have five to six wives in addition to several affairs with many more women.