Noble savages: my life among two dangerous tribes -- the yanomamo and the anthropologists 9780684855103, 9781451611472, 1451611471
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela's Amazon region
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English Year 2014
Table of contents :
Intro
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1: Culture Shock: My First Year in the Field
Chapter 2: Discovering the Significance of the Names
Chapter 3: Raids and Revenge: Why Villages Fission and Move
Chapter 4: Bringing My Family to Yanomamöland and My Early Encounters with the Salesians
Chapter 5: First Contact with New Yanomamö Villages
Chapter 6: Geography Lesson
Chapter 7: From Fieldwork to Science
Chapter 8: Conflicts over Women
Chapter 9: Fighting and Violence
Chapter 10: First Contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri
Chapter 11: Yanomamö Origins and Their Fertile Crescent Chapter 12: Yanomamö Social OrganizationChapter 13: Three Headmen of Authority
Chapter 14: Twilight in Cultural Anthropology: Postmodernism and Radical Advocacy Supplant Science
Chapter 15: Confrontation with the Salesians
Chapter 16: Darkness in Cultural Anthropology
Acknowledgments
About Napoleon A. Chagnon
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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