Darkness in El Dorado : how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon /
Patrick Tierney.
- First edition.
- xxvii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-395) and index.
List of Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guns, Germs, and Anthropologists, 1964-1972 -- Savage Encounters -- At Play in the Field -- The Napoleonic Wars -- Atomic Indians -- Outbreak -- Filming the Feast -- A Mythical Village -- In Their Own Image, 1972-1994 -- Erotic Indians -- That Charlie -- To Murder and to Multiply -- A Kingdom of Their Own -- The Massacre at Haximu -- Warriors of the Amazon -- Ravages of El Dorado, 1996-1999 -- Into the Vortex -- In Helena's Footsteps -- Gardens of Hunger, Dogs of War -- Machines That Make Black Magic -- Human Products and the Isotope Men -- Mortality at Yanomami Villages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Part I. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Part II. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Part III. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17. Chapter 18. Appendix.
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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Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938- --Public opinion.
Yanomamo Indians--Crimes against Yanomamo Indians--Social conditions Indians, Treatment of--Amazon River Region Genocide--Amazon River Region Gold mines and mining--Amazon River Region Anthropological ethics--Amazon River Region