Darkness in El Dorado

Darkness in El Dorado
By:Patrick Tierney
Published on 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company


Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the tribe in radiation studies. Reprint.

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