Napoleon Chagnon

Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon ( ; August 27, 1938 – September 21, 2019) was an American anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon was known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö.

Chagnon died at the age of 81 on September 21, 2019 in Traverse City, Michigan.Horgan, John (27 September 2019).  "My Regrets about Controversial Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (RIP)."  Scientific American.  Retrieved 11 July 2020.

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Other websites
 Brockmann, John. "Edge Special Event feat. Napoleon Chagnon", Edge.org, 6 June 2013.
Grossman, Andrew. "Napoleon Chagnon's Waterloo", The Dartmouth Review, 30 October 2000.
Wallace, Scott. "Napoleon in Exile", National Geographic Adventure Magazine, April 2002.

Category:1938 births
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Category:Educators from Michigan
Category:American anthropologists
Category:Writers from Michigan
Category:Scientists from Michigan
Category:People from Traverse City, Michigan