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The Yanomamo has a unique family organization. The reducing of nuclear family by age categories is one of these. Generally, the nuclear family is an important basic unit of human societies. However, when the Yanomamo becomes ten years old, one thirds of them live in a family with their parents, and one tenth of them are in such family when they comes to be twenty years old. This means that most marriageable aged Yanomamo men don’t have a living father, who must die from attacks of raiders or accidents. In Yanomamo society, marriages are arranged by a father, but, in the case of absence of a father, they are arranged by elder men of their kinship or elder male friends. The Yanomamo usually marry more than one wife as a benefit and marker of social status. That is polygamy. It is sometimes explained as a resul