Darkness in El Dorado : how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon / Patrick Tierney.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Norton, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393049221
- 9780393049220
- 981.1 21
- F2520.1.Y3 T54 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-395) and index.
List of Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Guns, Germs, and Anthropologists, 1964-1972 -- Chapter 1. Savage Encounters -- Chapter 2. At Play in the Field -- Chapter 3. The Napoleonic Wars -- Chapter 4. Atomic Indians -- Chapter 5. Outbreak -- Chapter 6. Filming the Feast -- Chapter 7. A Mythical Village -- Part II. In Their Own Image, 1972-1994 -- Chapter 8. Erotic Indians -- Chapter 9. That Charlie -- Chapter 10. To Murder and to Multiply -- Chapter 11. A Kingdom of Their Own -- Chapter 12. The Massacre at Haximu -- Chapter 13. Warriors of the Amazon -- Part III. Ravages of El Dorado, 1996-1999 -- Chapter 14. Into the Vortex -- Chapter 15. In Helena's Footsteps -- Chapter 16. Gardens of Hunger, Dogs of War -- Chapter 17. Machines That Make Black Magic -- Chapter 18. Human Products and the Isotope Men -- Appendix. Mortality at Yanomami Villages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.
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