The Fierce Anthropologist
A REPORTER AT LARGE about anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon, and the damage done by him and others while studying the Yanomami tribes of the upper Orinoco…
"I gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, sweaty, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows!" Chagnon's first encounter with the Yanomami, from his landmark 1968 ethnography.