by PatrickTierney (Author)
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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 462
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 14 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0393322750
ISBN 13: 9780393322750