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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