American Exceptionalism And The Name Primitive Tribes Give To Themselves

The ethnonym Yanomami was produced by anthropologists on the basis of the word yanõmami which, in the expression yanõmami thëpë, signifies "human beings." This expression is opposed to the categories yaro (game animals) and yai (invisible or nameless beings), but also napë (enemy, stranger, non-Indian)

"Within many native languages, their names for themselves can be translated as the people or the human beings." Other tribes are called "the things," "the bloodsuckers," "the man eaters" and other disparagements.

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