"When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz Boaz and Margaret Mead's f…
"Hidden in the impenetrable jungles and highlands of Venezuela and Brazil, the Yanomami were first encountered in the 1960s by anthropologists who described them as the most savage and warlike of any tribe alive. Their brutal wars and sexual competition spawned countless films a…
"When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz Boaz and Margaret Mead's f…
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.
Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing mili…
"Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact t…
