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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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Southern California	Main	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	13	20.00	92%	46%	62%
Florida	Main	Y	6	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	30%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	17.27	91%	46%	36%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	33%	33%
North	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	27%	46%
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Dartmouth	Williams	10	0	10	20
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