Chagnon ethnographic description of yanomami derogator

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1. Were Chagnon's relationships with the Yanomami unethical?

2. Is Chagnon's ethnographic description of the Yanomami derogatory, and therefore unethical?

3. Should Chagnon have refrained from publishing data which could be misused by others to justify oppression of the Yanomami?

4. Was Chagnon's treatment by the AAA unethical?

5. Did Chagnon deliberately falsify his data to fit sociobiological theories?

6. Is Chagnon's claim that violence in Yanomami society at the time and place of his fieldwork was primarily motivated by male desire for access to women justified by the evidence?

7. Is Chagnon's claim that Unokais (men who had killed) had more wives and children than other men their own age justified by the evidence?

8. If Unokais (killers) are more reproductively successful than other comparable men, can this finding be generalized to make the sociobiological claim that in ancestral human populations, violence enhanced reproductive success and therefore chronic warfare was the normal condition?

9. Should anthropology be a science, and is anthropological knowledge scientific knowledge?

10. Is the production of scientific knowledge compatible with activism on behalf of indigenous people?

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