Are there any anthropologists out there who, like Thor Heyerdahl, make fieldwork awesome?

Great question! Love Kontiki! Check out Napoleon Chagnon. He passionately writes about his work with the Yanomamo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Chagno

Not anymore. Thor Heyerdahl had more balls than a thousand Indiana Joneses.

There’s a small handful of “experimental archaeologists” out there. If I go back for my Masters and PhD, I’ll probably do something of the sort.

Colin Turnbull. His study of the Ik people, as recounted in The Mountain People is a portrait of a society that has destroyed itself and the results are shocking.

There is a film called Keep the River on Your Right that is a documentary about a gay, Jewish anthropologist who lived with tribes in the Amazon and practiced cannibalism.