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YANOMAMI:
The Fierce Controversy
and What We Can Learn From It
Robert
Borofsky
with Bruce
Albert, Raymond
Hames, Kim
Hill ,
Leda
Leitao Martins , John
Peters , and Terence
Turner
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If
there is one book that redefines anthropology for the 21st
century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that
takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. Using
the
Yanomami controversy as a lens for examining anthropology
itself, Borofsky asks anthropologists – from introductory
students to advanced scholars – how we should craft
the values that define our work and ourselves. This is
an essential book for our times.
Carolyn
Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame
Finally,
a text that truly illuminates the issues of anthropological
ethics and helps anthropologists to think and act effectively.
In the form of an inquest on the Yanomami controversy,
Borofsky lets all sides and the AAA be heard in their own
words, creating a context where no reader is left to be
carried away by any one set of arguments. The debates reveal
deep perplexities that lie at the heart of our discipline.
Marvelous for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for
professionals and equally suited for reflective reading
and class discussion, this book will forever change my
teaching of anthropology as well as my own thinking.
Fredrik
Barth, Boston University
What
better way to learn anthropology than through one of its
great controversies? Written in a lucid and concise manner,
Yanomami is really two books in one: First, it is a riveting,
issues-oriented text that is ideal for sparking interest
and provoking discussion among introductory students; second
it is an invaluable analysis of critical disciplinary questions
that every anthropologist and anthropologist-in-the-making
need ponder.
Alex
Hinton, Rutgers University
The
discipline of anthropology has a great debt to Rob Borofsky,
who has given us a careful, deliberate reflection that
is both specific and general: specific, because the book
takes up a fierce debate that has riven the community of
anthropologists, scientists and health personnel working
with the indigenous people of the Amazon Basin; general
because, as Borofsky reminds us, this debate is at heart
about the imbalances of power that characterize our world.
Yanomami is not only a great teaching tool, one shaped
by the input of students, it is also a cautionary lesson
that should be read by all scholars and journalists who
work across gradients of class, culture, and language.
Paul
Farmer, Partners in Health
This
is a terrific book for teaching students about the possibilities
and practices of anthropology. As ethical individuals and
as engaged scholars we have to confront the deep and ongoing
contradictions of anthropology's relationship to the vulnerable
peoples it studies. Borofsky shows the potential for revitalizing
anthropology in the 21st century and challenges students
and teachers to work for change right now.
Philippe
Bourgois, UC San Francisco
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