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Contents
Introduction
1. Culture Shock: My First Year in the Field
2. Discovering the Significance of the Names
3. Raids and Revenge: Why Villages Fission and Move
4. Bringing My Family to Yanomamöland and My Early Encounters with the Salesians
5. First Contact with New Yanomamö Villages
6. Geography Lesson
7. From Fieldwork to Science
8. Conflicts over Women
9. Fighting and Violence
10. First Contact with the Iwahikoroba-teri
11. Yanomamö Origins and Their Fertile Crescent
12. Yanomamö Social Organization
13. Three Headmen of Authority
14. Twilight in Cultural Anthropology: Postmodernism and Radical Advocacy Supplant Science
15. Confrontation with the Salesians
16. Darkness in Cultural Anthropology
Acknowledgments
About Napoleon A. Chagnon
Notes
Bibliography
Index
I dedicate this book to two biologists who have been my colleagues and friends for many years and whose view of life on earth—and how we go about explaining and understanding it—ultimately rests on the scientific method and on Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. They are
RICHARD D. ALEXANDER
of the University of Michigan, whose career was largely spent studying crickets, and
EDWARD O. WILSON
of Harvard University, whose career was largely spent studying ants.
But they both eventually applied their understanding of the principles of evolution by natural selection to humans and raised questions in my mind about my own profession, anthropology, the study of man. Anthropology had no meaningful answer to the fundamental question about the very subjects of their profession: Why are humans social?
That question cannot be answered by anthropology because it is a biological question. Anthropologists simply assume that it is “natural” to be social. But sociality is something that itself must be explained because not all animals are social.
Once a cultural anthropologist begins thinking about this question, he or she has taken the first bite of a forbidden fruit.
As I write these words, a new issue is reemerging over the level at which natural selection most effectively operates. In several recent publications, especially his 2012 book, The Social Conquest of Earth,
E. O. Wilson has argued in favor of group selection, thus call ............

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