Darkness in El Dorado

Darkness in El Dorado
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0393322750
ISBN-13 : 9780393322750
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Book Synopsis Darkness in El Dorado by : Patrick Tierney

Download or read book Darkness in El Dorado written by Patrick Tierney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What "Guns, Germs, and Steel" did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journalists, self-serving anthropologists, and obsessed scientists placed the Yanomami, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, on the cusp of extinction. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of photos.


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