Patrick Tierney
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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Patrick Tierney
The explosive and highly controversial National Book Award finalist that has forever changed the discipline of anthropology. Thought to be the last “virgin” people, the Yanomami were considered the most savage and warlike tribe on earth, as well as one of the most remote, secreted in the jungles and highlands of the Venezuelan and Brazilian rainforest. Preeminent anthropologists like Napoleon Chagnon and Jacques Lizot founded their careers in the 1960s by “discovering” the Yanomami’s ferocious warfare and sexual competition. Their research is now examined in…
