anthropology - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The subtitle of Napoleon Chagnon’s (“SHAG-non’s”) memoir about his turbulent time in this discipline calls it one of “Two Dangerous Tribes.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this discipline whose members may conduct ethnography through participant observation. Its other practitioners include Franz Boas and Margaret Mead.

ANSWER: anthropology

[10m] Chagnon called this other “Dangerous Tribe” the “Fierce People” and depicted them as engaging in constant violence. Critics accused Chagnon of causing a measles outbreak among these Amazonian people.

ANSWER: Yanomamö [or Yanomami] (The full title of the memoir is Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes – the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists.)

[10h] Chagnon’s ethnographic film The Ax Fight was criticized for its inauthenticity for providing weapons to its subjects, like this early Robert Flaherty docufiction film that includes a staged walrus hunt.

ANSWER: Nanook of the North

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California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	20.00	92%	46%	62%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	30%	30%
North	Main	Y	11	17.27	91%	46%	36%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	33%	33%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	27%	46%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Stanford C	UCSC	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCI	10	10	0	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCLA C	10	0	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSB	10	0	0	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	USC	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Berkeley F	10	0	0	10
Carleton	McMaster C	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
McGill A	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Toronto K	McGill C	10	0	10	20
Western Ontario	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
Queen's B	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Guelph B	Toronto E	0	0	0	0
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	Queen's A	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Toronto J	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
UF C	FIU	10	0	0	10
UF E	FSU	10	10	0	20
Melbourne A	UF A	0	0	0	0
UCF A	Melbourne B	10	10	10	30
UCF B	USF	10	0	10	20
UF D	UF B	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	OSU D	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
CWRU D	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
MSU B	Pitt B	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	OSU A	10	10	10	30
MSU A	OSU B	10	0	0	10
OSU C	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	James Madison	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
NC State	South Carolina B	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
North Carolina C	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Roanoke	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
George Mason B	Penn A	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	Maryland D	10	10	0	20
Catholic University	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
George Washington B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	Georgetown A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Notre Dame E	10	0	10	20
VCU A	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
Penn B	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Lehigh A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Rowan A	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Missouri B	Truman State	10	10	0	20
WashU A	William Woods	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	WashU B	10	0	0	10
SIUE	WashU C	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
Kentucky	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame D	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	UIC	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Macalester B	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
Amherst B	Brown B	10	0	0	10
BC A	Brandeis Orlando	10	0	0	10
BC B	Brandeis Wilson	10	0	0	10
Brown A	BU	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	10	30
Brown C	Harvard	10	0	0	10
MIT B	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth	Williams	10	0	10	20
Cornell-UG	Yale A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia A	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Washington A	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
Alberta	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Auburn A	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Huntsville A	10	0	0	10
Alabama B	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
UAB A	Huntsville B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Birmingham A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Sheffield A	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	City St George's A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Durham A	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Sheffield C	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Durham B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
LSE A	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Syracuse	10	0	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
ESF	RIT B	10	0	0	10