The American Anthropological Association’s executive board has launched a formal inquiry into the highly publicized allegations of decades-long misconduct by anthropologists and others working in South America among the Yanomami Indians. The charges appeared in a controversial book released last year (SN: 1/27/01, p. 58). A five-person task force will probe fieldwork practices of Yanomami researchers.
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