Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon ( ; August 27, 1938 – September 21, 2019) was an American anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon was known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö.

Chagnon died at the age of 81 on September 21, 2019 in Traverse City, Michigan.

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Brockmann, John. "Edge Special Event feat. Napoleon Chagnon", Edge.org, 6 June 2013. Grossman, Andrew. "Napoleon Chagnon's Waterloo", The Dartmouth Review, 30 October 2000. Wallace, Scott. "Napoleon in Exile", National Geographic Adventure Magazine, April 2002.

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1938 births

2019 deaths

Educators from Michigan

American anthropologists

Writers from Michigan

Scientists from Michigan

People from Traverse City, Michigan

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