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050 00 $aF2520.1.Y3$bT54 2000
082 00 $a981/.1$221
100 1 $aTierney, Patrick.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88012832
245 10 $aDarkness in El Dorado :$bhow scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon /$cPatrick Tierney.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axxvii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, 1 map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-395) and index.
520 1 $a"When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz Boaz and Margaret Mead's findings had done nearly a half-century before.
520 8 $aTheir brutal wars and mating habits spawned countless films and books, the most prominent being Chagnon's The Fierce People, which sold more than a million copies and influenced the nascent field of sociobiology. To Chagnon and his colleagues, the Yanomami represented the last frontier, their habitat the final place where one could observe the behavior of man in a pristine setting untouched by outside influence.".
520 8 $a"Now, in a work that complements Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Patrick Tierney refutes the macho theories and revolutionary claims of an entire era of anthropology in an explosive account based on more than a decade of research. He demonstrates how these researchers, as well as journalists and scientists, echoed the travails of the Spanish and English explorers of five centuries ago as they sought the illusory city of El Dorado, a promised land already destroyed by their own brutality.
520 8 $aIn painstaking detail, Tierney explores the hypocrisy, distortions, and humanitarian crimes committed in the name of research, and reveals how the Yanomami's internecine warfare was, in fact, triggered by the repeated visits of outsiders who went looking for a "fierce" people whose existence lay primarily in the imagination of the West.
520 8 $aTierney, who gained access to dozens of unedited audio tapes of documentaries, provides an astonishing link between the Atomic Energy Commission and these anthropological forays, and his book serves as a new chapter in the long, sorrowful history of Western cultural imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aChagnon, Napoleon A.,$d1938-$xInfluence.
600 10 $aChagnon, Napoleon A.,$d1938-$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aYanomamo Indians$xCrimes against.
650 0 $aYanomamo Indians$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aIndians, Treatment of$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aGenocide$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aGold mines and mining$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aAnthropological ethics$zAmazon River Region.
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852 00 $boff,jou$hF2520.1.Y3$iT54 2000
852 00 $bbar$hF2520.1.Y3$iT54 2000