@article{ref1,
title="Yanomami: An arena of conflict and aggression in the Amazon",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="1998",
author="Sponsel, LE",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="97-122",
abstract="The Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil have become an arena of conflict and aggression in the Amazon in at least three respects: their internal aggression; the aggression among anthropologists and others concerned with them; and the external aggression against the Yanomami from Western society. As such, the Yanomami provide a microcosm of several aspects of the anthropology of conflict and aggression. After some background, a critical analysis is developed of 10 problem areas that call into serious question the scientific status of Yanomami as one of the most violent human societies ever known in anthropology: the Yanomami as &quot;the fierce people&quot;; documentation of their aggression; inflation of their aggression as warfare; neglect of cross-cultural perspective; modern warfare as reversion to tribalization; the negative concept of peace; male sexist bias; the Yanomami as &quot;primitive&quot;; the character of debates; and research priorities and professional ethics. The analysis has more general implications for the epistemology of the study of aggression. <p />",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}