![]() ![]() Today the 62-year-old Chagnon (Americanized to “SHAG-non”), clad in jeans and a khaki shirt, looks the part of the contented retiree. Napoleon Chagnon’s research catapulted the Yanomamö into the limelight as the fierce people of the rain forest, and as their ethnographer Chagnon became, as one scholar described him, the most famous anthropologist in the world, living or dead. Over the years he would make more than 25 trips into remote regions of Amazonia to study these people, vividly chronicling their way of life in a record-selling book and prizewinning documentaries. ![]() TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.-In 1964 a 26-year-old graduate student embarked on an expedition that would take him back in time, venturing deep into the Venezuelan jungle to study a primitive Indian tribe known as the Yanomamö. ![]()
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