The ‘fierce people’ in the context of US foreign politics

A historical anthropology approach to Napoleon Chagnon's interpretation of the Yanomami

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Alexandre Coello de la Rosa Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) – CSIC alex.coello@upf.edu

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Yanomami; violence; Sahlins; Chagnon; historical anthropology
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This essay aims to rethink the epistemological study of violence among the Yanomami's Venezuelan and Brazilian world. In doing so, I reopen some of the discussions between Marshall Sahlins and Napoleon Chagnon/National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the context of the much longer debate about ‘innate aggressiveness’ (as virtue or vice) as it came to be revived in the context of the Cold War, decolonisation and the protests against the Vietnam War.

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Keywords:
Yanomami; violence; Sahlins; Chagnon; historical anthropology
Print Publication Date:
01 Nov 2018
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01 Nov 2018
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© European Association of Social Anthropologists 2018
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