How Scientists And Journalists Devastated The Amazon And Date Of Publication Is The Early 2000s (Essay Sample)

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Darkness in El Dorado
Author: Patrick Tierney, The title of the book is Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon and Date of publication is the early 2000s.
Purpose of the book.
The book Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney is a provocative and controversial book that lays out a detailed and emotional investigation of the plundering of the renowned Yanomami tribe of the Amazonia by everyone ranging from the United States Atomic Energy Commission to the Catholic missionaries. The book covers the details of how the native Yanomami tribe of Amazonia have been misused and inhabited in the name of profit, journalism, and science (Tierney).The author mainly focuses on how the first anthropologists and other individuals have exposed Yanomami tribe to external diseases that have had a devastating impact on the traditional Yanomami mode of life (Eakin).
Patrick Tierney wrote this book to expose and raise awareness of how the native Yanomami tribe of Amazonia have been misused and inhabited in the name of profit, journalism, and science.
Yes, the purpose of the book is clearly stated as the author has exposed how the anthropologists Napoleon Chagnon and the geneticist James Neel carried out human research without concern and respect for their subjects' health, and social interest. This neglect leads to misuse and exposure to disease of the native tribe of the Amazon Basin who reside in Brazil and Venezuela (Sponsel).
Most important information in the book.
The book’s most important information is the exposure and coverage of how modern anthropologists and genetics researchers misused the native Yanomami tribe. The author covers the information of how the anthropologist Chagnon and the Genetics Neel knowingly exposed a large number of the Yanomami communities to deadly diseases that increased their death rates.
The book’s information not only helped me in understanding the Yanomami tribe but also explored many factors and effects that made the Yanomami tribe arrive at their present state regarding the images of Indigenous people, their communities, and their media work. How Patrick describes the unpleasant effects, which included the destructive rise of materialism among the native Yanomami, and the negative influence of Christian missionaries further helped me understand the tribe better.
The facts, experiences, and data the author used to support his conclusions.
The facts and experiences the author uses to support his conclusions are the financial data about how scholars, anthropologists, and genetics experts misused governmental funds in Brazil and Venezuela to exploit the Yanomami tribe. Patrick uses facts on how scores of moviemakers and journalists who have pursued and followed the Yanomami tribe to document their way of life and present their findings to the western and global market. The author shows how these outsiders have brought about lethal diseases and aggravated hostility and mistrust among the different groups in Yanomami tribe.
Main conclusions of this book
The main conclusions of...