Napoleon Chagnon a contesté l'idée du "noble sauvage". Il est devenu l'anthropologue le plus contesté aux États-Unis.
The New York Times (…) Among the hazards Napoleon Chagnon encountered in the Venezuelan jungle were a jaguar that would have mauled him had it not become confused by his mosquito net and a 15-foot anaconda that lunged from a stream over which he bent to drink. There were also hairy black spiders, rats that…