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Napoleon A. Chagnon: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN: 0684855100

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Cronk, L. Napoleon A. Chagnon: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. Hum Ecol 41, 487–489 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9585-9

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