Talk:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

POV

This article takes a blatantly partisan approach to the subject of the controversies around anthropological work among the Yanomamo, in particular, this sentence:

Chagnon's views in this matter were criticized by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney in his much-defamed book Darkness in El Dorado

Tierney's work is in fact hugely controversial, to the point where the American Anthropological Association has renounced its previous Darkness in Eldorado report that was largely based on his work. One can, of course, fix this one sentence quite easily, but I think it is strongly symptomatic of larger problems of bias in this article. I believe the entire article should be reviewed, with a view toward being NPOV on the Yanomamo research controversy, and less hagiographic toward its subject overall. Peter G Werner (talk) 17:43, 30 June 2015 (UTC). This complaint is itself highly controversial. While is true that Tierney's work has been severely criticized, it is also the case, that Chagnon's views (eagerly seized upon by Stephen Pinker) have been thoroughly debunked. See, for example, this review by Stephen Corry. No one, on the other hand, has convincingly been able to dismiss Davi Kopenawa's (and Bruce Albert's) testimonies.Crelake (talk) 13:21, 2 October 2015 (UTC)Jeremy Fox

Karls Lokotsch tried in the past to prove that the name "Amazonas" (Amazons, in English) comes from indigenous origin, and not from Greek, he affirmed that it was a way for the Indians to refer to the Amazon River, a Brazilian novelist in the beginning of the 20th century, called Gastão Cruls, affirmed that the Spaniards came across an indigenous tribe, whose name was "Icamiaba", this tribe, according to him, was composed of women, even without stating such evidence all these facts were revealed as absolute truths, what is the purpose of this? Sell books only. At no time were there even any reports that the Indians killed each other because of women or because the more male Indians could procreate and have more children. Such scientific data collected in a doubtful manner by the supposed anthropologist in question has always been contested by scientists and by people who have always had contact with these Indians. During the 60's and 70's many statements about Amazonia were fanciful and built as truths without the consent of the Amazonian people in question, so the myth of the "lung of the world", "the 20% oxygen of the Earth", "the largest forest in the world", "the cannibals", "brutal savage", among other fanciful myths was built. The text needs a more reliable translation, someone has incorporated this article here thinking that it could contribute, but I do not see the need to put a band of neutraly, I suggest following the Portuguese translation that is much improved and should follow the parameters of the data following the verifiability policy within the portal. This is an encyclopedia and not a source of conspiracy that one invents a theory and tries to prove, the theories of this scientist are not accepted by most members of the academic community in Brazil.--WikiUser22222 (talk) 05:15, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

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