The Yanomamo of Venezuela and Brazil are a truly remarkable people, and one of the few sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This classic ethnography, based on the authors extensive fieldwork, includes a brief discussion of events and changes that have occurred since 1996. The Legacy 6th Edition of The Yanomamo also includes a Q&A interview with the author, which reveals his own perspective on his lifes work, reflects changes within the field of anthropology itself, and presents the authors views on the recent decade of controversies that his work has inspired among critics (including some anthropologists).
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Weight: 430g
Dimensions: 161 x 231mm
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2012
Publisher: Cengage Learning Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781111828745
About Napoleon Chagnon
Napoleon A. Chagnon was born the second of twelve children in Port Austin Michigan in 1938. He is married and has two children. He began his academic training at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at Sault Ste. Marie Michigan (now called Lake Superior State University) in the physics curriculum. After one year there he transferred to the University of Michigan changed his major to anthropology and received his B.A. (1961) M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees in anthropology at the University of Michigan. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School from which position he participated in an extensive multi- disciplinary study of the Yanomam Indians of Venezuela and Brazil. During this time he also held a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan where he taught anthropology courses. He has held positions at Pennsylvania State University Cambridge University Northwestern University and the University of California Santa Barbara. His recent views on Anthropology as a discipline are contained in Noble Savages his most recent book (2012).