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Author Tierney, Patrick.

Title Darkness in El Dorado : how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon / Patrick Tierney.

Publication Info. New York : Norton, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  981 TIE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  981 TIERNEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  981.1 TIERNEY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  981.1 T44    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  981.1 TIERNEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxvii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ;c 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-395) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Guns, germs, and anthropologists, 1964-1972 -- ch. 1. Savage encounters -- ch. 2. At play in the field -- ch. 3. The Napoleonic Wars -- ch. 4. Atomic Indians -- ch. 5. Outbreak -- ch. 6. Filming the feast -- ch. 7. A mythical village -- pt. 2. In their own image, 1972-1994 -- ch. 8. Erotic Indians -- ch. 9. That Charlie -- ch. 10. To murder and to multiply -- ch. 11. A kingdom of their own -- ch. 12. The massacre at Haximu -- ch. 13. Warriors of the Amazon -- pt. 3. Ravages of El Dorado, 1996-1999 -- ch. 14. Into the vortex -- ch. 15. In Helena's footsteps -- ch. 16. Gardens of hunger, dogs of war -- ch. 17. Machines that make black magic -- ch. 18. Human products and the isotope men -- appendix. Mortality at Yanomami villages.
Subject Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019 -- Influence.
Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019 -- Public opinion.
Yanomamo Indians -- Crimes against.
Yanomamo Indians -- Social conditions.
Indians, Treatment of -- Amazon River Region.
Genocide -- Amazon River Region.
Gold mines and mining -- Amazon River Region.
Anthropological ethics -- Amazon River Region.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- Amazon River Region.
ISBN 0393049221
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