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Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019

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Personal name headingChagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019
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Variant(s)Chagnon, Napoleon, 1938-2019
Other standard no.110301025
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Associated countryUnited States Venezuela
Birth date1938-08-27
Death date2019-09-21
Place of birthPort Austin (Mich.)
Field of activityAnthropology Sociobiology
AffiliationUniversity of Michigan
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Profession or occupationAnthropologists Sociologists College teachers
Sociobiologists
Found inHis Ya̦nomamö, the fierce people, 1968.
Biella, Peter. Ya̧nomamö interactive, 1997: disc label (Napoleon A. Chagnon)
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri. Faculty, viewed July 7, 2014: Napoleon Chagnon (Professor ; Emphasis: Cultural Anthropology ; PhD Info: University of Michigan 1966 ; best known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö ; Working primarily in the headwaters of the upper Siapa and upper Mavaca Rivers in Venezuela ... from the mid-1960s until the latter half of 1990s ; one of the early pioneers of the fields of sociobiology and human behavioral ecology)
   <http://anthropology.missouri.edu/%3Fq=node/94>
Eakin, Emily. How Napoleon Chagnon became our most controversial anthropologist, February 13, 2013, viewed online July 7, 2014: (met him in January ... in Columbia, where he ... had just moved ; retirement from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999 ; grew up ... in rural Port Austin, Mich. ; sociobiologist).
Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 19, 2023 (Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon (27 August 1938 - 21 September 2019) was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Chagnon>
Associated languageeng
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