This is the kind of thing that makes the article unambiguously Western-ethnocentric. They obviously know the concept of love. His mother wept tears of joy at the arrival of her son.
Indeed. They probably have 10 different words for all of the different contexts and shades of it. "Love" is a ridiculously deficient and imprecise word.
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This is the kind of thing that makes the article unambiguously Western-ethnocentric. They obviously know the concept of love. His mother wept tears of joy at the arrival of her son.
Indeed. They probably have 10 different words for all of the different contexts and shades of it. "Love" is a ridiculously deficient and imprecise word.
I agree. That single sentence irritated me immensely. It was a ham-fisted and misguided attempt to emphasize the 'exoticness' of the Yanomami.
They don't hug either. A mother can't hug her son. The example does imply they are not an affectionate people.