Although Flawed, Book on Yanomami Research 'Served Anthropology Well,' Report Concludes

ONE THUMB UP: Anthropologists don't have to like what Patrick Tierney says about their colleagues, but they should be glad he says it.

That seems to be the conclusion of the American Anthropological Association's inquiry on Mr. Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (W.W. Norton, 2000), which sharply criticizes researchers' treatment of an indigenous people.

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