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Magical Death
''Magical Death'' is a documentary film by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, that explores the role of the Shamanism, shaman within the Ya̧nomamö, Yanomamo culture, as well as the close relationship shamanism shares with politics within their society. Chagnon and frequent collaborator Tim Asch allegedly disagreed over the content of the film, when Asch objected to its graphic depictions of the Yanomami, engaging in symbolic death and cannibalism. The film was awarded the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon. See also * ''The Ax Fight'' * ''Yanomamö: The Fierce People'' References External links 'Reviewed by Eric Almquist in American Anthropologist Vol. 77, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), p. 179'Reviewed on page 17 of Robert Borofsky's ''Yanomami: The fierce controversy and what we can learn from it'' 1973 films Yanomami in film Anthropology documentary films Documentary films about death American documentary films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon Chagnon
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. His 1967 ethnography ''Yanomamö: The Fierce People'' became a bestseller and is frequently assigned in introductory anthropology courses. Admirers described him as a pioneer of scientific anthropology. Chagnon was called the "most controversial anthropologist" in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |