{"product_id":"noble-savages-my-life-among-two-dangerous-tribes-the-yanomamo-and-the-anthropologists-9780684855110","title":"Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes--The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of history's greatest anthropologists--and a rip-roaring storyteller--recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited\" (Steven Pinker, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Better Angels of Our Nature\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNapoleon Chagnon's \u003ci\u003eNoble Savages\u003c\/i\u003e is the remarkable memoir of a life dedicated to science--and a revealing account of the clash between science and political activism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela's Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, he expected to find Rousseau's \"noble savage.\" Instead he found a shockingly violent society. He spent years living among the Yanomamö, observing their often tyrannical headmen, learning to survive under primitive and dangerous conditions. When he published his observations, a firestorm of controversy swept through anthropology departments. Chagnon was vilified by other anthropologists, condemned by his professional association (which subsequently rescinded its reprimand), and ultimately forced to give up his fieldwork. Throughout his ordeal, he never wavered in his defense of science. In 2012 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChagnon, Napoleon A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Napoleon Chagnon was a distinguished research professor at the University of Missouri, adjunct research scientist at the University of Michigan, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He formerly taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Penn State, Northwestern, and the University of Michigan. He was the author of five previous academic books.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556322840850,"sku":"9780684855110","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d039791-1017-4e8f-b97f-2ccf5a532399.jpg?v=1731751909","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/noble-savages-my-life-among-two-dangerous-tribes-the-yanomamo-and-the-anthropologists-9780684855110","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}