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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Patrick Tierney

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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

What "Guns, Germs, and Steel" did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journalists, self-serving anthropologists, and obsessed scientists placed the Yanomami, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, on the cusp of extinction.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2001
ISBN-13
9780393322750
Genre
Science & Technology
Topics
Anthropology ethicsYanomami tribeAmazon exploitation

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