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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > cultural/social anthropology > darkness in el dorado controversy
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darkness in el dorado controversy  

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  • Late in the year 2000, an intellectual tsunami hit anthropology in America and beyond. It was generated by the controversy surrounding the publication of a book by Patrick Tierney called Darkness in El Dorado: How Anthropologists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Darkness in El Dorado Controversy]

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