Does anyone know the story about the anthropologist who married a Yanomami woman? No, it’s not a joke. I know he married her, they had a couple of kids, then she wanted to go back to the rain forest. Is there a book on the subject?
What’s the guy’s name?
They are Yarima and Kenneth Good. She wanted to go back to the forest? Nah, just to visit. They live in New Jersey and she’s this suburban soccermom now.
Don’t take that book from Anthro class too seriously. There are questions about it. Questions about the link, too. Nobody agrees with anything.
I read Napoleon Chagnon’s ethnography ~25 years ago, and I think it was written ~25 years before that, for an anthro class. A thing I’ve noted over the years has been that the name of the tribe seems to change. Were they not the Yanomomo in the original ethnography (which I cannot lay my hands upon now)?
OK, I looked at the link provided by dropzone and cleared up a bunch. Still interesting, eh?
Isn’t it the Yanomami that judge how much a woman is loved by the number of scars on her head that her husband gave her?
Thanks for the links, Dropzone. I will check out the book. I saw a National Geographic special where the couple was returning to the Rain Forest and the wife wanted stay, but I’m not sure if she left him permanently or what happened to the children (imagine the custody battle). It’s definitely a bizarre scenario. I wonder whether Good was chastised by the anthropology community for marrying one of the tribe he was studying. Also, I think she was only 13 at the time.