December 1, 2000

Anthropologists Debate a Controversial Book and Their Own Research Ethics

By D.W. MILLER

Anthropologists have been agitated for weeks by sensational charges, contained in a new book, that researchers have long mistreated an isolated Amazon tribe. In mid-November, scholars attending the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association finally got a chance to face the book's author and hash out the controversy en masse. Although experts dismissed some of the book's claims, many scholars here nevertheless insisted that their discipline must become more self-critical and

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