The Fierce People. That's what anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon called the indigenous Ya̧nomamö Indians of Venezuela in his 1968 book Ya̧nomamö: The Fierce People. It's one of the best-selling ...

His studies of an Amazon people made them famous, and put him at the center of a scholarly storm. By Cornelia Dean Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon caused a storm when he questioned the idea of the “Noble Savage.” Nick Romeo on his jungle adventures. Ariana Cubillos/AP When ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has died at ...

It's a scandal replete with sex, drugs, and violence. Oh, and scientists, which is where Napoleon Chagnon comes into the picture. Chagnon, professor emeritus of anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, ...

Napoleon Chagnon is perhaps best known for his classic 1968 Amazon ethnography Yanomamö: The Fierce People, now in its sixth edition. He is also among a handful of scholars whose research prompted the ...

One prominent anthropologist, Marshall Sahlins, resigns from National Academy of Sciences to protest its election of another prominent anthropologist, Napoleon Chagnon, as well as the group's military ...

For decades anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has incited uproar with his claims of genetically-rooted violence among Venezuela's Ya̧nomamö... The Fierce People. That's what anthropologist Napoleon ...