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December, 2001

• Sponsel, Leslie, 2001, On Reflections on Darkness in El Dorado. Current Anthropology 42(2):265-276.

7. Though Flawed, Book on Yanomami Research 'Served Anthropology Well,' Report Concludes - Chronicle of Higher Education

5. Early judgment in council of elders - The Australian (December 5, 2001)

3. Anthropologists Criticize Release of Preliminary Report on Controversy Over Research on the Yanomami - Chronicle for Higher Education
   Amazon tribe study called 'deeply flawed' - USA TODAY

September, 2001

• Public Anthropology: Engaging Ideas, 2001
• Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
• Envisioning a More Public Anthropology: An Interview with Fredrik Barth
• Life among the Yanomami. The story of change among the Xilixana on the Mucajai River in Brazil Canadian Business and Current Affairs, Anthropologica
• ROUNDTABLE FORUM: Ethical Issues Raised by Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado
  • An Open Letter to Our Anthropological Colleagues
  • Introduction
  • Round One
    1. Bruce Albert
    2. Ray Hames
    3. Kim Hill
    4. Lêda Leitão Martins
    5. John Peters
    6. Terry Turner
  • Round Two
    1. Bruce Albert
    2. Ray Hames
    3. Kim Hill
    4. Lêda Leitão Martins
    5. John Peters
    6. Terry Turner
  • Round Three
    1. Bruce Albert
    2. Ray Hames
    3. Kim Hill
    4. Lêda Leitão Martins
    5. John Peters
    6. Terry Turner (Part One)
    7. Terry Turner (Part Two)

27. Tribal, xenophobic and bellicose: we're just born that way The Daily Telegraph (London)

July, 2001

4. Das Treffen von Goettingen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German)

June, 2001

16. Darkness in El Dorado, ABC, 16/06/01

May, 2001

• Shermer, Michael, 2001 "The erotic-fierce people: the latest skirmish in the ''anthropology wars'' reveals a fundamental flaw in how science is understood and communicated" Scientific American 284:5, pg 31

11. Creating A Tribe Of Ancestral Savages The Times Higher Education Supplement

April, 2001

• Darkness in El Dorado: Human Genetics on Trial Newton E. Morton, Journal of Genetics, April 2001 (pdf)
• Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado Current Anthropology, Forum on Anthroplogy in Public (papers by Fernando Coronil, Alan G. Fix, Peter Pels, Charles L. Briggs, Clara E. Mantini-Briggs, Raymond Hames, Susan Lindee, and Alcida Rita Ramos)
• 10, 000 Years of Tribal Warfare: History, Science, Ideology and "The State of Nature" The Journal of the International Institute, 8(3), Spring/Summer 2001

26. Markus Stumpf: Das Schicksal der Yanomami und die Schattenseiten der Anthropologie. In: Lateinamerika Anders Panorama. Österreichs Zeitschrift für Lateinamerika Nr. 2, April 2001, 26. Jahrgang; ISSN 1028-9453; Wien; S. 21-24.

24. Medical fact or fiction? Medical Post

11. Nazism 101 -- Sociobiology: Genes For Genocide Challenge
    Capitalist Anthropology: `Science' of Extermination Challenge
    Guns, Germs, Steel and Anthropologists Challenge
    Backlash Challenge

10. Brasil-indios senador exige explicacion sobre experimentos de eeuu con yanomami Spanish Newswire Services (Spanish)

1. The Erotic-Fierce People Scientific American

March, 2001

• Fighting the Darkness in El Dorado Scientific American

30. Brasil-indios yanomamis brasilenos pueden demandar a eeuu por manipulacion adn Spanish Newswire Services (Spanish)
    ’Life Among The Anthros’ New York Review of Books - Terence S. Turner

26. Brazil Indians Outraged by Minister's Statements Yahoo News (Reuters, AP, The New York Times, and ABCNEWS.com)
    

22. Ghosts of fieldwork past United Press International
    Anthropologist discusses his position in an 'ethics firestorm' in his field - Cornell Chronicle, (March 22, 2001)

18. Study Denounces Decimation Of Yanomami Tribe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

17. Masern, Medizin und Moral; Yanomami-Indianer als Versuchskaninchen amerikanischer Forscher? Neue Zuercher Zeitung (German)
    Unheil ueber El Dorado Neue Zuercher Zeitung (German)

14. Science Attacks Amazon Tribe The New Republic Online

12. Scientists Dispute Anthropology Book Discovery.com
    Tvister om människans natur Svenska Dagbladet (Disputes about humans nature) (Swedish)

11. Necessary Discipline The New York Times (Letter to the Editor by Benjamin G. Zimmer)
    I tjänst hos folkmordet? Göteborgs-Posten (In service of Ethnocide?) (Swedish)

4. Not the "baddest" guy in the bush United Press International

3. The Fierce Anthropologists Daily Telegraph Magazine

1. Ferguson, R. Brian, 2001 Materialist, cultural and biological theories on why Yanomami make war. Anthropological Theory 1(1):99-116.

February, 2001

• Pseudoscience and Culturology (by Nicholas Nicastro) The Bookpress
• Idees Fixes and Innuendos (by Terence Turner) The Bookpress
• Anthropological Angst (by John Stevens) The Bookpress
• Exorcising sociobiology The New Criterion
• Review: Research in the rainforest The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (by Geoffrey Sea)
• A Tangled Web, In More Ways Than One The Pennsylvania Gazette

28. Ethik der Feldforschung Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German)

22. The Fierce Academics: A scholars' war threatens the future of an Amazon tribe Metro (Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper)

11. It's Not Nice To Fool With Mother Nature The Columbus Dispatch
    Academic Warfare New York Times Book Review

9. Venezuelan Response to Yanomamo Book Science

8. Life Among the Anthros The New York Review of Books (by Clifford Geertz)
          Reply - Leslie E. Sponsel

5. With Controversy Swirling Around Them, Yanomami Have Other Worries New York Times
   Diseases threaten Brazilian tribe Environmental News Network

January, 2001

• Zen Marxism Revisited: Tierney and False Dualisms in Anthropology Anthropology News
  A Tangled Web, In More Ways Than One The Pennsylvania Gazette (January/February)
  Arvelo-Jimenez, Nelly La Saga de los Yanomamo - Reflexiones en Torno al Libro Darkness in El Dorado, Jan. 2001

23. Looking Into The Heart Of Darkness Anthropologists Face A Moment Of Truth After Charges Of Bringing Cultural Ruin To The Amazon The Boston Globe

21. Jungle Fever The Washington Post
    Review: Tierney's Darkness indicts the very tenets of anthropology The Anniston Star

19. Scientific Community: Anthropological Warfare Science
    Scientific Community: Preemptive Strike Sought to Discredit Book Before It Was Published Science

13. Darkness at the heart of science: Anthropologists despoiled cultures they studied, author says The Gazette (Montreal)
    OFF CENTRE: The warring tribes that fight battles in print: A new book has sparked an academic row by claiming that one of the most intriguing primitive societies - and one of the best studied - suffered as a result of contact with western scientists. Mark Wallace reports Financial Times (London)

12. Academic Scandal in the Internet Age The Chronicle of Higher Education

7. Venezuela Bars Researchers After Book Charges Ethnocide Indians´ measles blamed on pair San Francisco Chronicle

4. Epidemia de enfermedades respiratorias causó 12 muertes en la etnia yanomami El Nacional (Spanish)

Some notes about this page:

1. The articles above are listed by date of publication (most recent first).
2. When I first began collecting news on the ´scandal´, I merely created links to the source document. As it turns out, most of the news pieces are removed after a certain period, so you will find all of the documents are now mirrored within my site. There are links to the original documents on each of the pages.