Napoleon Chagnon’s “Noble Savages” is a sprawling book that explores his complicated relationship with the Yanomamo Indians of Venezuela, as well as his war with anthropology. Author of one ...

Most explosively, Tierney alleges that: American geneticist James Neel performed a monstrous biological experiment on the Yanomamo Indian tribe by deliberately introducing a dangerous measles ...

They were headed to their tiny outpost in Yanomamo territory — two or three thatched huts. This boat trip took me from the territorial capital, Puerto Ayacucho, a small town on the Orinoco River ...

When Napoleon Chagnon first saw the isolated Yanomamo Indian tribes of the Amazon in 1964, it changed his life forever. A young anthropologist from the University of Michigan, he was starting on a ...

12 review of “Darkness in El Dorado,” the name of the publisher of “Yanomamo: The Fierce People” by Napoleon Chagnon was misspelled. The out-of-print book was published by Holt ...

Media declared Chagnon's description of the Yanomamo as living "in a state of chronic warfare" as being perhaps the "most contested" phrase "in the history of anthropology" [Reuters] At the centre ...

Yanomamo feasts are ceremonial, social, economic, and political events. They are occasions for men to adorn their bodies with paint and feathers, to display their strength in dance and ritualized ...

The Yanomamo take this attitude, according to their chief chronicler, Napoleon Chagnon. "Almost everyone, including the Yanomamo, regards war as repugnant and would prefer that it did not exist ...

The anthropologists snipe at each other not only over different interpretations of whether the Yanomamo's violence sprang from a desire for women or red meat, but also swap blame for a vast ...