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

from MlleEhreen

This book is all sour grapes. Resentment, bitterness, grudges, bad attitude. Don't read NOBLE SAVAGES for a balanced perspective, or a thorough explanation of the conflicts that defined Chagnon's career. He's telling his side of the story only. What's more -- what's worse -- is that NOBLE SAVAGES...

from MlleEhreen

This book is all sour grapes. Resentment, bitterness, grudges, bad attitude. Don't read NOBLE SAVAGES for a balanced perspective, or a thorough explanation of the conflicts that defined Chagnon's career. He's telling his side of the story only. What's more -- what's worse -- is that NOBLE SAVAGES...

from ceg045

I received Noble Savages as part of a Goodreads giveaway.Napoleon Chagnon first visited the Yanomamo tribes, scattered around the Brazilian-Venezuelan border, in the 1960s. Over the course of three decades and numerous additional site visits, he has conducted both qualitative and quantitative res...

from

This is more a memoir than an anthropological study, documenting Chagnon's studies of Yanomamo culture over a span of 30 years. Chagnon is extremely bitter: he is on a mission to out his detractors as politically correct / Marxist / non-scientific activists. But he doesn't need to go so far, beca...

from br77rino

Napoleon Chagnon tells the story of his career in anthropology. He was able to study one of the last primitive societies untouched by modern man, the Yanomamo of Venezuela/Brazil. It's a fantastic story of several tribes of about 100 people each, who fight each other for women and honor, grow, an...