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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

Hardcover • 2013 • English

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

By Napoleon A. Chagnon

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The most controversial and famous anthropologist of our time describes his seminal lifelong research among the Yanomamo Indians of the Amazon basin and how his startling observations provoked admiration among many fellow anthropologists and outrage among others. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela's Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamo Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to...Show more

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ISBN

9780684855103

Publisher

SIMON SCHUSTER

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

Format

Hardcover

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