Napoleon Chagnon

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Napoleon Chagnon is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, Pennsylvania State University

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Napoleon Chagnon

Anthropology

#26

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#54

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#13

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Cultural Anthropology

#22

World Rank

#33

Historical Rank

#12

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According to Wikipedia, Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon was known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö, a society of indigenous tribal Amazonians, in which he used an evolutionary approach to understand social behavior in terms of genetic relatedness. His work centered on the analysis of violence among tribal peoples, and, using socio-biological analyses, he advanced the argument that violence among the Yanomami is fueled by an evolutionary process in which successful warriors have more offspring. His 1967 ethnography Yanomamö: The Fierce People became a bestseller and is frequently assigned in introductory anthropology courses.

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Napoleon Chagnon's Published Works

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Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population (1988) (965)
Yanomamo: The Fierce People (1968) (709)
Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: An anthropological perspective (1979) (686)
Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior (1979) (438)
Growth rates and life histories in twenty‐two small‐scale societies (2006) (403)
Studying the Yanomamo (1974) (154)
Notes on the effect of measles and measles vaccine in a virgin-soil population of South American Indians. (1970) (97)
Protein deficiency and tribal warfare in Amazonia: new data. (1979) (96)
Lethal coalitionary aggression and long-term alliance formation among Yanomamö men (2014) (94)
The demography of two tribes of primitive, relatively unacculturated American Indians. (1968) (90)
Yanomamo: the Last Days of Eden (1998) (88)
Intratribal genetic differentiation among the Yanomama Indians of southern Venezuela. (1967) (77)
The influence of cultural factors on the demography and pattern of gene flow from the Makiritare to the Yanomama Indians. (1970) (68)
The genetic structure of a tribal population, the Yanomama indians. VII. Anthropometric differences among Yanomama villages. (1972) (64)
Demographic structure of a primitive population: a simulation. (1971) (57)
Gene frequencies and microdifferentiation among the Makiritare Indians. I. Eleven blood group systems and the ABH-Le secretor traits: a note on Rh gene frequency determinations. (1970) (56)
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists (2013) (54)
The genetic structure of a tribal population, the Yanomama Indians: II. Eleven blood‐group systems and the ABH‐Le secretor traits * (1972) (49)
Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic variation in the Yanomamö: a test case for ancient DNA studies of prehistoric populations. (2002) (39)
Chromosome aberrations among the Yanomamma Indians. (1970) (37)
Yanomamo Hallucinogens: Anthropological, Botanical, and Chemical Findings (1971) (31)
Chronic problems in understanding tribal violence and warfare. (2007) (25)
Cross-cousin marriage among the Yanomamö shows evidence of parent–offspring conflict and mate competition between brothers (2017) (23)
Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective (2017) (21)
Response to Ferguson (1989) (19)
Killed by kindness (1993) (18)
On Yanomamo Violence: Reply to Albert (1990) (16)
The ax fight (2009) (14)
Fission in an Amazonian Tribe (1976) (12)
Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight (1996) (9)
Yanamami Warfare: A Political History. R. Brian Ferguson (1996) (6)
Locational Analysis of Yanomamö Gardens and Villages Observed in Satellite Imagery (2006) (5)
The thyroid status of the Yanomamö Indians of southern Venezuela: 1992 update. (1993) (5)
Manipulating Kinship Rules : A Form of Male Yanomamö Reproductive Competition (2017) (5)
New Tribes Mission (2009) (4)
Amazon warfare. (1980) (3)
GIS, GPS, political history, and geo-demography of the Aramamisi Yanomamo expansion (1991) (3)
[Various aspects on the use of drugs, trade and domestication of plants among the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela and Brazil]. (1970) (3)
Response to Cappelletti and Turner (1994) (1)
Yanomamö: The Sociobiology People (2015) (1)
Children's magical death (2009) (1)
Yanomamo, the true people (1976) (1)
Kin-Selection Theory, Kinship, Marriage and Fitness Among the Ya̧nomamö Indians (2019) (1)
Yanomamö : a multidisciplinary study (2009) (1)
Yanomamo survival. (1989) (1)
A man called "Bee" : studying the Yąnomamö (2009) (1)
Ocamo is my town (2009) (0)
On Williams's Review of Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior (1982) (0)
Doing Fieldwork among the Y a nomamö 1 (2002) (0)
Jaguar and the revenge of the twins as told by Daramasiwä (2009) (0)
Films from the Yanomamo Series@@@The Ax Fight@@@The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told by Kaobawa@@@The Yanomamo Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwa@@@Magical Death@@@Children's Magical Death (1979) (0)
A man and his wife make a hammock : Moäwä and Daeyama make a hammock (2009) (0)
The Ya̧nomamö myth of Naro as told by Ka̧obawä (2009) (0)
Tug of war (2009) (0)
Firewood : Kaösarama collects wood (2009) (0)
Biomedical samples from the Amazon. (2006) (0)
People of the Amazon. Adapted from National Geographic Society's Television Special AMAZON (1974) (0)
Climbing the peach palm : collecting Rasha Fruit (2009) (0)
Moonblood : a Yanomamö creation myth as told by Dedeheiwä (2009) (0)
Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil. 1989. A film by Geoffrey O'Connor and Bruce Albert. (1991) (0)
Yanomamo of the Orinoco (2009) (0)
The Ya̧nomamö myth of Naro as told by Dedeheiwä (2009) (0)
James Van Gundia Neel, papers, ca. 1935-1999 (2014) (0)
On Brace's Notion of "Hominid Catastrophism" (1973) (0)
Weeding the garden : Dedeheiwä weeds and rests in his garden (2009) (0)
Anthropology and the Nature of Things (2019) (0)
A Father washes his children (2009) (0)

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