Departmental Papers (HSS)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
2003
Publication Source
Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication
Start Page
60
Last Page
94
Abstract
During his 1967 fieldwork, James V. Neel, professor of human genetics at the University of Michigan, spent a good deal of time collecting chicken dung. He scraped up dirt and chicken waste from the ground around the Yanomamö villages. He sought out dirt from the floors of the Yanomamö houses, where parrots were kept as free-roaming pets. He crawled under chicken coops, filling seventy-five labeled plastic bags with samples, using a fresh plastic spoon for each sample, and he worried about getting this soil and bird waste safely back to Atlanta, Georgia, for testing at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).1
Copyright/Permission Statement
pp. 60-94, Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication edited by Francisco Salzano and Magdalena Hurtado, 2003, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/?lang=en&cc=gb
Recommended Citation
Lindee, S. (2003). Voices of the Dead: James Neel's Amerindian Studies. In Salzano, F. & Hurtado, M. Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication, pp. 60-94. Oxford University Press.
Included in
Anthropology Commons, Cultural History Commons, Genetics and Genomics Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons
Date Posted: 24 October 2017