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Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-
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Yanomamo Indians.
Sociobiology.
Human behavior.
Social evolution.
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Noble savages : my l...
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Noble savages : my life among two dangerous tribes-- the Yanamamö and the anthropologists / Napoleon A. Chagnon.
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Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2013.
Subjects
Yanomamo Indians.
Sociobiology.
Human behavior.
Social evolution.
ISBN:
9780684855103
0684855100
Description:
531 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Contents:
Culture shock : my first year in the field -- Discovering the significant of the names -- Raids and revenge : why villages fission and move -- Bringing my family to Yanomamöland and my early encounters with the Salesians -- First contact with the new Yanamamö villages -- Geography lesson -- From fieldwork to science -- Conflicts over women -- Fighting and violence -- First contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri -- Yanamamö origins and their fertile crescent -- Yanamamö social organization -- Three headmen of authority -- Twilight in cultural anthropology : postmodernism and radical advocacy supplant science -- Confrontation with the Salesians -- Darkness in cultural anthropology.
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"The ... anthropologist author of the ... Yanomamo describes his controversial life-long research among the Yanomamo Indians, describing how his beliefs in the evolutionary advantages of their inherent violence have been systematically rejected by politically correct scientists."--B&T.
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