Bitter Warfare in Anthropology

Charges of academic distortion and grandstanding mark a dispute over the Amazon's Yanomamo Indians

By Peter Monaghan

When Napoleon A. Chagnon entered Venezuela 30 years ago to study the Yanomamo Indians, he had the study of them all to himself.

The Yanomami were particularly interesting because they lived in remote lands at the head of the Orinoco River and appeared to have...

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