Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

This is one of the best books I've ever read (and I'm a good reader). Hard to believe and Anthropologic book can be so good.

I was an anthropology major in the late 1980's at UC Santa Barbara. Chagnon was my professor for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Obviously, he assigned his book (Yanomamo: The Fierce People) and showed several of his films in class (including the Axe Fight). Based upon my 10 weeks in his class, including a few visits to his office, I found his behavior to be very arrogant, condescending, and narcissistic. Tierney's allegations against Chagnon just don't surprise me.

a review below states "This book should be titled 'lies and deception'. Even extreme anthropological Marxists like Ferguson and Harris - whose ideas Tierney uses - have distanced themselves from this work." i have to say its absolutely not true, I had Ferguson as a professor at Rutgers and when i asked if he could recommend any books on the subject of the Yanonami this was on the top of his list. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the perception of warfare [or the contruction of such perception]. The short explanation is, its just a great book for whatever reason. i also recommend reading some chagnon after reading this book for the contrast. but this is def a great read!