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 of the ...

My first day in the field — November 28, 1964 — was an experience I'll never forget. I had never seen so much green snot before then. Not many anthropologists spend their first day this way. If they ...

In 2008 André François spent a month with the Yanomamo of Xitei, a community of around 1,400 Amerindians scattered between 19 villages several hours’ walk from each other, deep in the Amazon ...

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists, by Napoleon A. Chagnon (Simon & Schuster, 544 pp., $32.50) Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon’s heart was pounding ...

"Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, known worldwide for his pioneering work in the Amazon rainforest with the Yanomamo people, will speak April 13 at the University of Indianapolis. Chagnon’s 1968 book, ...

Edited film produced from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. Film documents a performance ...

Edited film from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. A Yanomamo shaman tells the myth of ...

Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but anthropologists working in Ecuador among ...

American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. The editor welcomes manuscripts that creatively demonstrate the connections between ethnographic ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A decade after it was published, Patrick Tierney’s polemic against the work of U.S. social scientists in South America remains a source of tension in the anthropology world. In his ...

Some diet doctors recommend you start every meal with a cup of soup. Others advise you to eat a lot of celery for its water content. Makers of clothes hangers called that curved end the “turn back.” ...

Napoleon A. Chagnon is the most polarizing anthropologist in the field. He made numerous trips over three decades into the backwaters of Venezuela to study Stone Age people called the Yanomamo, and ...