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Noble savages : my life among two dangerous tribes-- the YanamamoÌ and the anthropologists / Napoleon A. Chagnon.

By: Publication details: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: 531 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780684855103 :
  • 0684855100
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.5 23
LOC classification:
  • F2520.1.Y3 C49 2013
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 YanomamoÌland and my early encounters with the Salesians -- First contact with the new YanamamoÌ villages -- Geography lesson -- From fieldwork to science -- Conflicts over women -- Fighting and violence -- First contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri -- YanamamoÌ origins and their fertile crescent -- YanamamoÌ social organization -- Three headmen of authority -- Twilight in cultural anthropology : postmodernism and radical advocacy supplant science -- Confrontation with the Salesians -- Darkness in cultural anthropology.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks F2520.1 .Y3 C49 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001265387

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-510) and index.

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 YanomamoÌland and my early encounters with the Salesians -- First contact with the new YanamamoÌ villages -- Geography lesson -- From fieldwork to science -- Conflicts over women -- Fighting and violence -- First contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri -- YanamamoÌ origins and their fertile crescent -- YanamamoÌ social organization -- Three headmen of authority -- Twilight in cultural anthropology : postmodernism and radical advocacy supplant science -- Confrontation with the Salesians -- Darkness in cultural anthropology.

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.

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