ABSTRACT
The furore surrounding the publication of Patrick Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado (2000) (hereafter DED) has been both overtaken and undertaken by events. It has been overtaken by wide journalistic coverage of the book’s contents and critiques of those contents, subsequently rendered more modestly scandalous and hence, apparently, un-newsworthy. At the time of writing (December 2001), there is very little press attention to the furore. It has been simultaneously subject to a review of the charges (by a professional body, the American Anthropological Association) that has resulted in an interim report (aaanet.org – a site at which extensive documentation of DEDrelated discussion can be found) which, if it bears any resemblance to the final report, will be judiciously restrictive in terms of adding fuel to the fire. Among the most useful post-mortem discussions is a set of commentaries in the April 2001 issue of Current Anthropology (42: 2).1
