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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists Brochura - 2014
por Napoleon A. Chagnon
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âÈêOne of historyâÈçs greatest anthropologistsâÈ'and a rip-roaring storytellerâÈ'recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignitedâÈë (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).
When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in VenezuelaâÈçs Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he discovered a remarkably violent society. Men who killed others had the most wives and offspring, their violence possibly giving them an evolutionary advantage. The prime reasons for violence, Chagnon found, were to avenge deaths and abduct women.
When Chagnon began publishing his observations, some cultural anthropologists who could not accept an evolutionary basis for human behavior refused to believe them. A scathing attackâÈ'which was quickly disprovenâÈ'accused him of starting a measles epidemic among the Yanomamö, and the American Anthropological Association condemned him, only to rescind its condemnation after a vote by the membership. Thus Chagnon became perhaps the most famous American anthropologist since Margaret MeadâÈ'and the most controversial.
In Noble Savages, Chagnon describes his seminal fieldworkâÈ'during which he lived among the Yanomamö, was threatened by tyrannical headmen, and experienced an uncomfortably close encounter with a jaguarâÈ'taking readers inside Yanomamö villages to glimpse the kind of life our distant ancestors may have lived thousands of years ago. And he forcefully indicts his discipline of cultural anthropology, accusing it of having traded its scientific mission for political activism.
Praised as âÈêa beautifully written adventure storyâÈë (The New York Times) and âÈêone of the most interesting anthropology books I have ever readâÈë (Charles C. Mann, The Wall Street Journal), Noble Savages is an important and timely scientific memoir that raises fundamental questions about human nature itself.
When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in VenezuelaâÈçs Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he discovered a remarkably violent society. Men who killed others had the most wives and offspring, their violence possibly giving them an evolutionary advantage. The prime reasons for violence, Chagnon found, were to avenge deaths and abduct women.
When Chagnon began publishing his observations, some cultural anthropologists who could not accept an evolutionary basis for human behavior refused to believe them. A scathing attackâÈ'which was quickly disprovenâÈ'accused him of starting a measles epidemic among the Yanomamö, and the American Anthropological Association condemned him, only to rescind its condemnation after a vote by the membership. Thus Chagnon became perhaps the most famous American anthropologist since Margaret MeadâÈ'and the most controversial.
In Noble Savages, Chagnon describes his seminal fieldworkâÈ'during which he lived among the Yanomamö, was threatened by tyrannical headmen, and experienced an uncomfortably close encounter with a jaguarâÈ'taking readers inside Yanomamö villages to glimpse the kind of life our distant ancestors may have lived thousands of years ago. And he forcefully indicts his discipline of cultural anthropology, accusing it of having traded its scientific mission for political activism.
Praised as âÈêa beautifully written adventure storyâÈë (The New York Times) and âÈêone of the most interesting anthropology books I have ever readâÈë (Charles C. Mann, The Wall Street Journal), Noble Savages is an important and timely scientific memoir that raises fundamental questions about human nature itself.
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- Título Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
- Autor Napoleon A. Chagnon
- Encadernação Brochura
- Edição Reprint
- Páginas 544
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Simon & Schuster, New York
- Data de publicação 2014-02-18
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780684855110 / 0684855119
- Peso 1.15 libras (0.52 kg)
- Dimensão 8.8 x 6 x 1.5 in. (22.35 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.5
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âÈêAn important contribution to the debates over the methods and theories used to understand humans in anthropology and evolutionary sciencesâÈ'and to debates over how visionaries become the targets of those who do not share their vision.âÈë
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