Discuss the methods used by an anthropologist to study a culture, using the case study of the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon as your example. Be sure to explain what he learned about the culture, using the film and articles assigned for this topic.
View: antho classic, "A Man Called Bee" about ethnographer Napoleon Chagnon and the people he studied in the Amazon, the Yanomamo (aka Yanomami, Yanomama)(44 min.)
https://archive.org/details/amancalledbeestudyingtheyanomamo (Links to an external site.)
Read:"Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo"
http://202.203.192.18/pub/shyjjxwyjzx/docs/20140512094102783400.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Read: commentary on Chagnon and on criticisms of his work:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/my-regrets-about-controversial-anthropologist-napoleon-chagnon-rip/
3 pages