Yanomami controversies
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Turner, Terence
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content: Terence Turner papers
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content: Terence Turner papers / Series 2: Human rights, ethics, and activism
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content: circa 1964-2014
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content: undated
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2020-03, Subseries 2.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries is arranged in two sections: Special Commission to Investigate the Situation of the Brazilian Yanomami and Darkness in El Dorado controversy.
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content: This subseries includes materials related to the two major controversies concerning the Yanomami people with which Turner was involved. The first of these arose from the Brazilian goverment allowing mining and logging in Yanomami territories, which led to the Haximu or Yanomami Massacre in 1993. In 1990, when it became clear that the Brazilian government was not inclined to create a Yanomami reservation which convered their territory, the American Anthropological Association created a Special Commission to Investigate the Situation of the Brazilian Yanomami. Turner chaired this commission and this subseries includes materials related to this investigation including correspondence, press releases, reports, interviews, and papers. The second controversy arose in 2000, just prior to the publication of Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney, when Turner and Leslie Sponsel warned the AAA that the book would incite controversy. The materials related to this controversy include papers, correspondence, books, news clippings, and interviews.