I found a large theme in these articles to be power. I believe that the power caused many issues. Napoleon Chagnon seems the overwhelming need to show his dominance over the Yanomami. In the New Yorker article a tribe member was quoted as saying that Chagnon would fire his pistol every time he entered the village to prove he was fiercer than the Yanomami. Rather than adapting his ways to live with the people, Chagnon bribed and manipulated the people to do as he wanted. The anthropologist took advantage of what he had and what the Yanomami were lacking to get the results he wanted. James Neel used the power of his knowledge from the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission to literally get away with murder. Within the tribe the men express their power over the women by beating them and making the tribal decisions.