Comments on: Yanomami Fatigue http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 17 May 2012 01:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Louis Proyect http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-612289 Louis Proyect Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:43:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-612289 Hey, Rex Did you get the idea of dressing up like a native from Napoleon Chagnon? Hey, Rex

Did you get the idea of dressing up like a native from Napoleon Chagnon?

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]]> By: Kathy http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Kathy Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:55:02 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-622 *applauds Steve* You know, I never read the book either. I did see the movie, but after the whole controversy had broken, and the prof was interested in using it to show the kinds of distortions that editing and interpretation can introduce. I agree we should be focusing on more important issues. It angers me that we can spend so much time on this issue, and not on issues like what OUR OWN ASSOCIATION did with the labor unions, and issues of what the actual purpose of the AAA is and how it can make contributions to anthropologists and to society in the present, and not something that happened fifty years ago. Chagnon came to speak at our school recently, sponsored by someone in the medical school (anthropology & geography would not have him). It was an appalling lecture, self-righteous, wrong in some of his facts (like he would have slides with data that said exactly what he was arguing against--and by slides I mean actual slides from the seventies). And the one prof (one of only three full profs in our department) who had the temerity to ask about the issues was silenced and brushed off. *applauds Steve*

You know, I never read the book either. I did see the movie, but after the whole controversy had broken, and the prof was interested in using it to show the kinds of distortions that editing and interpretation can introduce.

I agree we should be focusing on more important issues. It angers me that we can spend so much time on this issue, and not on issues like what OUR OWN ASSOCIATION did with the labor unions, and issues of what the actual purpose of the AAA is and how it can make contributions to anthropologists and to society in the present, and not something that happened fifty years ago.

Chagnon came to speak at our school recently, sponsored by someone in the medical school (anthropology & geography would not have him). It was an appalling lecture, self-righteous, wrong in some of his facts (like he would have slides with data that said exactly what he was arguing against–and by slides I mean actual slides from the seventies). And the one prof (one of only three full profs in our department) who had the temerity to ask about the issues was silenced and brushed off.

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]]> By: John Norvell http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-123 John Norvell Wed, 25 May 2005 14:35:07 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-123 Sigh. Yes. But Yanomami fatigue is precisely what those members who feel that, well...you know what they feel, are counting on in their referendum. Democracy is nothing if not a royal pain in the ass most of the time. Sigh. Yes. But Yanomami fatigue is precisely what those members who feel that, well…you know what they feel, are counting on in their referendum. Democracy is nothing if not a royal pain in the ass most of the time.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Rex Wed, 25 May 2005 03:57:53 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-118 See, now _that_ was funny. See, now _that_ was funny.

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]]> By: steve http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-117 steve Wed, 25 May 2005 01:18:07 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-117 I still think the AAA could've settled the whole thing with an ax fight. I still think the AAA could’ve settled the whole thing with an ax fight.

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]]> By: Uncle $cam http://savageminds.org/2005/05/23/yanomami-fatigue/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Uncle $cam Tue, 24 May 2005 05:12:17 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=51#comment-109 Excellent posts here, I don't have time now, but I will comment on this topic later... thanks so much.. Excellent posts here, I don’t have time now, but I will comment on this topic later…
thanks so much..

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