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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Napoleon Chagnon

1938 - 2019

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Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon (27 August 1938 – 21 September 2019) was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon was known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö, a society of indigenous tribal Amazonians, in which he used an evolutionary approach to understand social behavior in terms of genetic relatedness. His work centered on the analysis of violence among tribal peoples, and, using socio-biological analyses, he advanced the argument that violence among the Yanomami is fueled by an evolutionary process in which successful warriors have more offspring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Napoleon Chagnon has received more than 344,379 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Napoleon Chagnon is the 81st most popular anthropologist (down from 64th in 2019), the 9,744th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,808th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 81 out of 69. Before him are Françoise Héritier, Vladimir Bogoraz, Carleton S. Coon, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Grete Mostny, and Hugh Falconer. After him are Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Edwin H. Colbert, Eugenie Scott, and Alice Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 474. Before him are Giampaolo Menichelli, John Smith, Wiesław Maniak, Keith Greene, Paul Bartel, and Nikolay Smaga. After him are Jack Jones, Hayes Jones, Dietrich Stobbe, Robert Hughes, Dawn Wells, and John Connelly. Among people deceased in 2019, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 441. Before him are Gianfranco Leoncini, Bruno Nicolè, Guy François, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, and Eugène Camara. After him are Muriel Pavlow, Shelley Morrison, Ugo Colombo, Mary L. Good, José Rodrigues Neto, and Jeon Mi-seon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 9,744 out of 18,182. Before him are Sam Robards (1961), Alex Morgan (1989), April Bowlby (1980), Scott Steiner (1962), Cain Velasquez (1982), and Barbara Loden (1932). After him are Ethel Lackie (1907), Leroy Burrell (1967), Roxann Dawson (1958), Virginia Gregg (1916), David Newman (1954), and Lindsey Stirling (1986).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 22. Before him are Melville J. Herskovits (1895), George Murdock (1897), Madison Grant (1865), Helen Fisher (1945), Gayle Rubin (1949), and Carleton S. Coon (1904). After him are Edwin H. Colbert (1905) and Eugenie Scott (1945).

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