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Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard) 1927-
Robert Carneiro is a Curator Emeritus in the American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology. Carneiro joined the museum staff in 1957. In 1953 Carneiro began his fieldwork in South America, working first with the Kuikuru Indians of central Brazil, and continuing with the Amahuaca Indians of eastern Peru and the Yanomamo of southern Venezuela (February 1986, AMNH Rotunda)