tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223797477664258632.post1287472137001879679..comments2023-09-11T01:18:18.763-07:00Comments on Natural Right and Biology: Napoleon ChagnonKen Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580209017016829598noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223797477664258632.post-67426384844840047302019-10-05T07:16:06.365-07:002019-10-05T07:16:06.365-07:00”My initial fieldwork among the Yanomamö began in ...”My initial fieldwork among the Yanomamö began in the mid-1960s when few Yanomamö had any enduring contact with the outside world. Today things are very different. A great deal of change has taken place. Latecomers denounce me because the Yanomamö they visit at Salesian or other missions today are not the same kinds of Yanomamö I first met. And anthropology itself has changed politically. It is now acceptable to denounce earlier anthropologists in the name of political advocacy of native rights and to deny what earlier anthropologists like me saw because this older image of the Yanomamö does not conform to what the activists want to see.”Zbor la Mosor - Calugareni Romaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12678800640840828572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223797477664258632.post-4343254887575802882013-02-27T22:22:42.876-08:002013-02-27T22:22:42.876-08:00Survival International confirms at least one thing...Survival International confirms at least one thing: Napoleon Chagnon is very, very politically incorrect. I note that political correctness is not a virtue in science. Ken Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09580209017016829598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223797477664258632.post-21528611916685966552013-02-26T08:56:43.422-08:002013-02-26T08:56:43.422-08:00Napoleon Chagnon's new book has triggered a wa...Napoleon Chagnon's new book has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians.<br /><br />Marshall Sahlins, 'the world's most respect anthropologist alive today' has resigned from the US National Academy of Sciences in protest at Chagnon's election to the Academy.<br /><br />Davi Kopenawa, a spokesman for the Yanomami and President of a Yanomami association has also spoken out.<br /><br />A long list of anthropologists specialising in the Brazilian and Venezuelan Yanomami have issued a joint statement condemning Chagnon's work.<br /><br />For more information, visit Survival International's website: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/8997Survival Internationalhttp://www.survivalinternational.org/news/8997noreply@blogger.com