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 366,573 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Napoleon Chagnon is the 87th most popular anthropologist (down from 79th in 2019), the 10,505th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,722nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 87 out of 93. Before him are Françoise Héritier, Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Hugh Falconer, W. H. R. Rivers, and Grete Mostny. After him are Eugenie Scott, Edwin H. Colbert, Chris Stringer, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, John Tooby, and Alice Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 544. Before him are Aleksandar Kostov, Jimmy Carl Black, Indira Nath, Neville Lederle, Wiesław Maniak, and Abel Laudonio. After him are Terry Wogan, Dawn Wells, Peter Jennings, Sultan Rahi, Salvatore Morale, and Achim Müller. Among people deceased in 2019, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 484. Before him are Aleksandar Kostov, Stanton T. Friedman, Donald Kalpokas, Robert Walker, Neville Lederle, and Jerry Herman. After him are Walter Munk, Vasil Metodiev, Peter McNamara, Antal Bolvári, Jürgen Kissner, and Eugène Camara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 10,505 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Mikulski (1936), Florence Turner (1885), Lowell Sherman (1888), Amy Schumer (1981), Mary Woronov (1943), and Ari Aster (1986). After him are Tom Mankiewicz (1942), John Isner (1985), C. Henry Gordon (1883), John Anderson (1922), Oscar Apfel (1878), and Blanche Barton (1961).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Napoleon Chagnon ranks 23. Before him are Gayle Rubin (1949), Madison Grant (1865), Michael Harner (1929), James C. Scott (1936), Julian Steward (1902), and Carleton S. Coon (1904). After him are Eugenie Scott (1945), Edwin H. Colbert (1905), and John Tooby (1952).

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