Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the AnthropologistsSimon and Schuster, 18.02.2014 - 544 Seiten “One of history’s greatest anthropologists—and a rip-roaring storyteller—recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited” (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature). Napoleon Chagnon’s Noble Savages is the remarkable memoir of a life dedicated to science—and a revealing account of the clash between science and political activism. When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savage.” Instead he found a shockingly violent society. He spent years living among the Yanomamö, 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 Chagnon was vilified by other anthropologists, condemned by his professional association (which subsequently rescinded its reprimand), and ultimately forced to give up his fieldwork.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. |
Inhalt
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Yanomamö Origins and Their Fertile Crescent | 11 |
Contents Introduction | 13 |
Discovering the Significance of the Names | 38 |
Why Villages Fission and Move | 68 |
Bringing My Family to Yanomamöland and My Early Encounters with the Salesians | 99 |
First Contact with New Yanomamö Villages | 130 |
Geography Lesson | 176 |
Darkness in Cultural Anthropology | 423 |
Acknowledgments | 459 |
Notes | 463 |
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From Fieldwork to Science | 196 |
Conflicts over Women | 214 |
Fighting and Violence | 247 |
First Contact with the Iwahikorobateri | 279 |
Yanomamö Social Organization | 314 |
Three Headmen of Authority | 334 |
Postmodernism and Radical Advocacy Supplant Science | 378 |
Confrontation with the Salesians | 404 |
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