Departmental Papers (HSS)
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
4-2001
Publication Source
Current Anthropology
Volume
42
Issue
2
Start Page
272
Last Page
274
DOI
10.1086/320007
Abstract
More than once as the controversy over this book unfolded reporters and others told me the number of footnotes in Tierney's chapter on the measles outbreak: 147. I have now tallied the total number of footnores in the entire book including the appendix (1,599). Such numbers seem to interst people. It is considerable more difficult to quantify the evidentiary force and legitimacy of these footnores. My own assessment is perhaps suggested by the fact that I have rewritten this review several times in an effort to make it difficult for anyone to extract a decontextualized endorsement on some future web page or book jacket. This accounts for the somewhat stilted style, for which I apologize.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 2001 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Recommended Citation
Lindee, S. M. (2001). Review of Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado. Current Anthropology, 42 (2), 272-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/320007
Date Posted: 24 October 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.