"vincent p. norris" wrote:

Napoleon Chagnon was on the faculty here at PSU for some years--1960s
- '70s. Used to come to our TGIF beer parties at a local pub but
never brought his own cigarets. What a cheap *******! But his films
of the Yanamomo are terrific!

You should count your blessing, Vince. Could have been a lot worse:

"The Yanomamo are quite sociable with their tobacco. When someone removes
a wad and lays it down for a second, another might snatch it up and suck
on it until the owner wants it back. The borrower may be a child, a buddy,
a wife, a stranger, or, if willing, an anthropologist."
[attributed to Chagnon http://ethnobotany.yage.net/article1.html ]



Sorry we missed you the last day of the clave.

JR