Chagnon and Tierney Controversy
Chagnon's Account of His First Meeting with Yanomamö
A collection of links and references on the controversy
Brian Ferguson Yanomami Warfare
Robert Borofsky Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy
Gregor & Gross "Guilt by Association"
Thumbnail sketch of Yanomamö social life
"Whatever caused the measles epidemic (and that issue, it should be said, plays a much less prominent part in the book than it does in the discussion of the book) a case gets made, however clumsily, that something was seriously amiss in the relation between these confident and determined soi-disant 'scientists' with their cameras, their vials, their syringes, and their notebooks and the beset and puzzled, put-upon 'natives' to whom they look for facts to fill them with--something in the encounter was deeply and mutually, misconceived....The problem was that the anthros (and the medicos), reductionist to the core, conceived the object of their study not as a people but as a population. The Yanomami, who indeed had the requisite sort of brains, eyes, and fingers, were a control group in an inquiry centered elsewhere."