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)