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Yanomami science wars, part 2
The Cast of Characters As I read through the mind-blowing account of the principal characters in the Yanomami dispute in Patrick Tierney’s “Darkness in El Dorado”, it began at first to remind me of...
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Yanomami Science Wars, part 3
Yanomami film documentaries Documentaries about the Yanomami became a hot commodity not long after Napoleon Chagnon and Jacques Lizot established beachheads in the Amazon rainforest. Since they were...
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Yanomami Science Wars, part four
What Napoleon Chagnon believed Although it is brief article (7 ½ pages, including 42 footnotes), Napoleon Chagnon’s “Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population” has the merit of...
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Yanomami Science Wars: part five
Marvin Harris Critique number one: Marvin Harris This will be the first in a series of posts about Napoleon Chagnon’s critics. It will begin with a review of the arguments of Marvin Harris, a long-time...
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Yanomami Science Wars, part six
Jacques Lizot’s critique There is a cinematic quality between the clash of Napoleon Chagnon and Jacques Lizot. Chagnon, the blustering American who like to fire pistols to intimidate the Yanomami,...
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Yanomami Science Wars, part seven
The more I study the adventures of anthropologists in Yanomami-land, the more surreally cinematic they seem. From the pistol-packing Napoleon Chagnon in a loincloth to Jacques Lizot’s homosexual harem,...
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Secrets of the Tribe
As someone with a more than a passing interest in the Napoleon Chagnon/Yanomami controversy, I found the HBO documentary “Secrets of the Tribe” totally riveting. For those who are not familiar with...
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The Comanches and the Yanomami
Napoleon Chagnon Almost five years ago to the day, I resolved to begin researching the Comanche Indians of the southern Plains after reading Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”, a novel that was...
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What the press is saying about Napoleon Chagnon
Holding court among the natives The best place to start is with Emily Eakin’s piece in the Sunday NY Times Magazine that provides a good background. Titled “How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most...
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Chagnon’s war
Counterpunch Weekend Edition February 22-24, 2013 The Tarzan of Anthropology Chagnon’s War by LOUIS PROYECT The best way to understand Napoleon Chagnon’s contribution to anthropology is to tune in to...
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