Napoleon Chagnon
Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri; Author of Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.
NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. Following his retirement in 1999 from the University of California-Santa Barbara as Emeritus Professor of anthropology, he joined the University of Missouri's anthropology department as a research professor in early 2013.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
