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RSS FeedsNapoleon Chagnon, 81, controversial anthropologist, is dead
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10 october 2019 06:25:14

 
Napoleon Chagnon, 81, controversial anthropologist, is dead
(Artdaily.org)
 


Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died Sept. 21 in Traverse City, Michigan. He was 81. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his granddaughter Caitlin Machak. No specific cause was given. Chagnon proved controversial over his use of genetics and evolutionary theory to explain the behavior of the Yamomani, whose ways Westerners found exotic, to say the least. In his paper “Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population


 
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