Bibliograph

Noble savages, my life among two dangerous tribes--the Yanamamö and the anthropologists, Napoleon A. Chagnon

Type

Label

Noble savages, my life among two dangerous tribes--the Yanamamö and the anthropologists, Napoleon A. Chagnon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Noble savages

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

779266114

Responsibility statement

Napoleon A. Chagnon

Sub title

my life among two dangerous tribes--the Yanamamö and the anthropologists

Summary

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

Table Of 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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