Graeber / Wengrow 15: "the Yanomami have acquired a reputation as the quintessential violent savages: 'fierce people,' as their most famous ethnographer, Napoleon Chagnon, called them. This seems decidedly unfair to the Yanomami since, in fact, statistics show they're not particularly violent--compared with other Amerindian groups, Yanomami homicide rates turn out average-to-low. [However,] actual statistics turn out to matter less than the availability of dramatic images and anecdotes"
Chagnon's Yanomamö: The Fierce People sold millions of copies