El Dorado Controversy

Background

Personal involvement

Ethics Statement in My 1975 NSF Grant and 1981 Dissertation

Own publications

Ethics

Previous controversies

Statement at open forum of the 2000 annual convention of the AAA

Comments on the Prelminary Report of the AAA Task Force on Darkness in El Dorado

• General
• Introduction
• Medical
• Sex
• War
• Weaponry

Responses to partisan statements

• Flanney
• Geertz
• Michigan
• Oliver

Comments on Forum in Current Anthropology

Cornell Conference 2002

• Summary of conference
• Invited concluding remarks

Referendum by Gregor, et al. in March 2005

• Censorship
• DOA
• Four Points
• Future
• Vote
• Rebuttal of Science article by Charles Mann

Recommendations

• Initial
• 2005

Ongoing statements (2005- )

• Rebuttal of American Anthropologist article by Thomas Gregor and Daniel Gross

Parallels with the Thailand controversy

New Literature on the Controversy

Also see course 410 Ethics in Anthropology

Also see Yanomami