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Why do the yanomamo call napoleon chagnon, a man called bee?

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the reason why the yanomamo call napoleon chagnon, a man called bee is Because his name, Chagnon, sounded like the Yanomamo word for bee
This name is given to Napoloen chagnon when he worked as an anthropologist that studied the social structure of the Yanomamo people in Venezuela.
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