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ONAWAY, Mich. -- William "Bill" Roberts Sr., 70, Onaway, Mich., and formerly of Defiance, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, in his home. Handling arrangements is Chagnon Funeral Home, Onaway, Mich. To ...
Rudolph C. Salamino, Sr. “Rudy”, 62, of Onaway, formerly of Eastpointe. Cremation arrangements were in the care of the Chagnon Funeral Home. Send a condolence to the family of Rudy. C. Salamino, Sr.
Chagnon was known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö/Yanomami, a society of indigenous tribal Amazonians, in which he used an evolutionary approach to understand social behavior in terms of genetic relatedness.
In November 1964, a young American anthropologist named Napoleon Chagnon disembarked from a motorized rowboat after traveling for days up the Orinoco River into the territory of the Yanomamö, one...
Napoleon Chagnon’s research catapulted the Yanomamö into the limelight as the fierce people of the rain forest, and as their ethnographer Chagnon became, as one scholar described him, the most...
How anthropologist Napoléon Chagnon's pioneering research on Amazonian tribes led to false accusations and a career-ending witch hunt.
Chagnon’s exhaustive empirical study of the Yanomamö tribe in the Amazon rainforest commenced 50 years ago. Chagnon, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, also explored how kinship and violence unified and divided these societies.
Yanomamö: The Fierce People is a 1968 book by American cultural anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon. It is an ethnographic study of the Yanomami people of the Amazon. [1][2] The book has become a bestseller and widely used in university anthropology classes.