doing fieldwork among the yanomamo
“Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo,†Chagnon, 1968
1) How did Napoleon Chagnon experience in Culture Shock
while first meeting the Yanomamo Indians? How would you
have felt?
2) What were Chagnon’s research methods, and how long did
he conduct his research?
3) How were meals a problem?
4) When Chagnon mentions that he had to become like the
Yanomamo to get along with them, what does he mean? In
what ways did the men display “ferocity?†(Violence and
savagery)