Referendum on Task Force Report
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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 / 2.3: Yanomami controversies / Darkness in El Dorado controversy
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content: 2001-2006
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content: undated
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content: Box 59, Folder 6
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Includes motions by the AAA to establish a task force and concerning the Committee on Ethics, a AAA referendum concerning ethics in anthropology, AAA statements on ethics, the final report of the commission to review the AAA statements on ethics, notes and correspondence on ethics in anthropology, a flyer for a lecture series at Cornell entitled "Amazon Tragedy: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy and the Ethics of Research," excerpts from Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, the "Resolution of the Annual Meeting of The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America," a draft of a "Statement of the Committe for Human Rights on Policy Issues Raised by the Referendum to Rescind Approval of the El Dorado Task Force Report," the resolution to rescind the acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report, notes, a statement by an unidentified author in response to a posting by Turner about Neel, two articles in Spanish by Javier Ignacio Mayorca, an article by Phil Gunson from the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 entitled "Venezuela Bars Researchers After Book Charges Ethnocide/Indians' measles blamed on pair," the entry on Napoleon Chagnon from the Encyclopedia of Anthropology by H. James Birx with annotations by Turner, a statement by Stephen Sangren urging AAA members to vote against the resolution, and an article by D. W. Miller entitled "Anthropology Panel Accepts Some Findings, Rejects Others in Controversial Book on Study of the Yanomami" from the Chronicle of Higher Education.