Noble savages : my life among two dangerous tribes--the Yanomamö and the anthropologists

Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1938- (Author).

Summary: The most controversial and famous anthropologist of modern time describes his seminal lifelong research among the Yanomamö Indians of the Amazon basin and how his startling observations provoked admiration among many fellow anthropologists and outrage among others.

Record details

ISBN: 9780684855103 (hc.) :
ISBN: 0684855100 (hc.)
Physical Description: print
531 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Yanomamö villages -- Geography lesson -- From fieldwork to science -- Conflicts over women -- Fighting and violence -- First contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri -- Yanomamö origins and their fertile crescent -- Yanomamö social organization -- Three headmen of authority -- Twilight in cultural anthropology : postmodernism and radical advocacy supplant science -- Confrontation with the Salesians -- Darkness in cultural anthropology.