Remembering Napoleon Chagnon [1]

Napoleon Chagnon
1938 - 2019

Chagnon's extraordinary body of work will long be mined, not just by anthropologists but by psychologists, humanists, litterateurs, scientists of all kinds: mined for . . .  who knows what insights into the deep roots of our humanity? —Richard Dawkins

[ED. NOTE: Renowned anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon [2] was most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri, and the author of Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. On June 6, 2013, he was joined by his colleagues Daniel C. Dennett [3], David Haig [4], Steven Pinker [5], and Richard Wrangham [6] in a two-day celebration of his work and career in a special Edge event entitled “Napoleon Chagnon: Blood Is Their Argument,” [7] with an Introduction by Richard Dawkins [8].]

On Edge:

• Napoleon Chagnon: Blood Is Their Argument [9]      
An Edge Special Event [June 6, 2013]

Recommended: 

• Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale [10] by Alice Dreger [11] [Springer - Human Nature, 2011 Feb 16]