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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of ...

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 ...

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 an international team of anthropologists ...

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Here is a lovely fragment of archive I found. It is in the middle of a very serious BBC documentary called "Flightpaths to the Gods" made in 1997 all about the Nazca Lines in the high Peruvian desert.

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

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 ...