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

Patrick Tierney

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#1332 of 3,809 books · #118 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2000) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2000).

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
ISBN-13
9780393322750
Topics
Anthropology ethicsYanomami tribeAmazon exploitation

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