Napoleon A. Chagnon is the most polarizing anthropologist in the field. He made numerous trips over three decades into the backwaters of Venezuela to study Stone Age people called the Yanomamo, and ...

My first day in the field — November 28, 1964 — was an experience I'll never forget. I had never seen so much green snot before then. Not many anthropologists spend their first day this way. If they ...

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists, by Napoleon A. Chagnon (Simon & Schuster, 544 pp., $32.50) Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon’s heart was pounding ...

Men from one Yanomamo village in the Amazon 'dance' in a neighboring village to show off their military prowess, weaponry and group cohesion after they were invited to a feast to form a coalition ...

In 2008 André François spent a month with the Yanomamo of Xitei, a community of around 1,400 Amerindians scattered between 19 villages several hours’ walk from each other, deep in the Amazon ...

Edited film from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. A Yanomamo shaman tells the myth of ...

Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists. By Napoleon Chagnon. Simon & Schuster; 531 pages; $32.50. Buy from Amazon.com DID humans evolve to be peaceful ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A decade after it was published, Patrick Tierney’s polemic against the work of U.S. social scientists in South America remains a source of tension in the anthropology world. In his ...

Edited film produced from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. Film documents a performance ...

Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but an international team of anthropologists ...

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Here is a lovely fragment of archive I found. It is in the middle of a very serious BBC documentary called "Flightpaths to the Gods" made in 1997 all about the Nazca Lines in the high Peruvian desert.