January 12, 2001

Enforcing Ethical Principles in Anthropology

To the Editor:

D.W. Miller's description of the controversy at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting surrounding the publication of Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon was accurate, but it failed to address the inherent problem with the A.A.A.'s Code of Ethics ("Anthropologists Debate a Controversial Book and Their Own Research Ethics," December 1). Miller is not alone in this regard. ... Few

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