Darkness in El Dorado
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Author | : Patrick Tierney |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 0393322750 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780393322750 |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Darkness in El Dorado by : Patrick Tierney
Book excerpt: 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. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of photos.