Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

â€œOne of historyâ€™s greatest anthropologistsâ€”and a rip-roaring storytellerâ€”recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignitedâ€ (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).

Napoleon Chagnonâ€™s Noble Savages is the remarkable memoir of a life dedicated to scienceâ€”and a revealing account of the clash between science and political activism.

When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuelaâ€™s Amazon region in 1964 to study the YanomamÃ¶ Indians, he expected to find Rousseauâ€™s â€œnoble savage.â€ Instead he found a shockingly violent society. He spent years living among the YanomamÃ¶, observing their often tyrannical headmen, learning to survive under primitive and dangerous conditions. When he published his observations, a firestorm of controversy swept through anthropology departments. Chagnon was vilified by other anthropologists, condemned by his professional association (which subsequently rescinded its reprimand), and ultimately forced to give up his fieldwork. Throughout his ordeal, he never wavered in his defense of science. In 2012 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780684855110
ReleaseDate 2014-02-18
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780684855110

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780684855110
ReleaseDate	2014-02-18
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780684855110

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

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