Despite the fierce conflicts experienced living among anthropologists, science steals the show in Napoleon Chagnon’s autobiography Noble Savages
NAPOLEON may be the world’s most famous living anthropologist. From the late 1960s onward, if you were a college student in the US you would probably have read his monograph, ³Û²¹²Ô´Ç³¾²¹³¾Ã¶: The fierce people.
³Û²¹²Ô´Ç³¾²¹³¾Ã¶ became a bestseller because it is both well written and a thrilling adventure story. Its controversy turns on two ideas. First, Chagnon claimed the ³Û²¹²Ô´Ç³¾²¹³¾Ã¶ valued violence and warfare. Second, he concluded that this violence resulted primarily from men fighting over women, to secure mates.…
