Kenan Malik's review of 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney - 0 views
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In the twentieth century, the consequences of racial science led anthropologists to reject naturalistic explanations and to see human behaviour as dictated largely by culture, not biology
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all too often anthropologists saw what they wanted to
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The most prominent of the new generation of sociobiological anthropologists was the American Napoleon Chagnon
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I find this article interesting because it not only describes Tierney's point of view of Chagnon in 'Darkness in El Dorado' but it questions Tierney's own credibility of accusing Chagnon for such outrageous crimes. It describes his reasoning behind all his claims but also points out the last of factual evidence he presents with them.