Darkness in El Dorado
Subtitle: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon
By: Patrick Tierney
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780393049220
Subjects: Zerstörung; Ausrottung; Anthropological ethics; Conditions sociales; Crimes contre les; Regenwald; Cultureel antropologen; Crimes against; Social conditions; Public opinion; Genocide; Yanomami (Indiens); Yanomamo; Uitbuiting; Anthropologues; Mines et extraction; Influence; Yanomamo Indians; Or; Beroepsethiek; Attitudes envers les Indiens; Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les; Gold mines and mining; Etnocide; Déontologie; Appréciation; Treatment of Indians
Description: Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Guns, germs, and anthropologists, 1964-1972 -- -- ch. 1.; title: Savage encounters -- -- ch. 2.; title: At play in the field -- -- ch. 3.; title: The Napoleonic Wars -- -- ch. 4.; title: Atomic Indians -- -- ch. 5.; title: Outbreak -- -- ch. 6.; title: Filming the feast -- -- ch. 7.; title: A mythical village -- -- pt. 2.; title: In their own image, 1972-1994 -- -- ch. 8.; title: Erotic Indians -- -- ch. 9.; title: That Charlie -- -- ch. 10.; title: To murder and to multiply -- -- ch. 11.; title: A kingdom of their own -- -- ch. 12.; title: The massacre at Haximu -- -- ch. 13.; title: Warriors of the Amazon -- -- pt. 3.; title: Ravages of El Dorado, 1996-1999 -- -- ch. 14.; title: Into the vortex -- -- ch. 15.; title: In Helena's footsteps -- -- ch. 16.; title: Gardens of hunger, dogs of war -- -- ch. 17.; title: Machines that make black magic -- -- ch. 18.; title: Human products and the isotope men -- -- appendix.; title: Mortality at Yanomami villages.