DARKNESS IN EL DORADO: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (some scattered marginal notations, a few corners dog-eared). First printing. "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 painstaking detail by Patrick Tierney, whose book has prompted the American Anthropological Association to launch a major investigation into the charges, and has ignited the academic world like no other book in recent years. . . He explores the hypocrisy, distortions and humanitarian crimes committed in the name of research . . a new chapter in the long sorrowful history of cultural imperialism." A National Book Award finalist; a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Map. Photographs by Valdir Cruz. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 417 pp.