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Darkness in El Dorado : how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon / Patrick Tierney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Norton, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393049221
  • 9780393049220
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 981.1 21
LOC classification:
  • F2520.1.Y3 T54 2000
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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