Darkness in El Dorado : how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon /
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Norton,
[2000]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Guns, germs, and anthropologists, 1964-1972. 1. Savage encounters ; 2. At play in the field ; 3. The Napoleonic Wars ; 4. Atomic Indians ; 5. Outbreak ; 6. Filming the feast ; 7. A mythical village
- Part 2. In their own image, 1972-1994. 8. Erotic Indians ; 9. That Charlie ; 10. To murder and to multiply ; 11. A kingdom of their own ; 12. The massacre at Haximu ; 13. Warriors of the Amazon
- Part 3. Ravages of El Dorado, 1996-1999. 14. Into the vortex ; 15. In Helena's footsteps ; 16. Gardens of hunger, dogs of war ; 17. Machines that make black magic ; 18. Human products and the isotope men
- Appendix. Mortality at Yanomami villages.