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Invented Eden - The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (Paperback, 1st Nebraska pbk. printing)
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Invented Eden - The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (Paperback, 1st Nebraska pbk. printing)
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List price R671
Loot Price R564
Discovery Miles 5 640
You Save R107 (16%)
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In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a
dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six "Stone Age"
rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon
featured in American newscasts and graced the cover of National
Geographic. But after a series of aborted anthropological ventures,
the Tasaday Reserve established by Ferdinand Marcos was closed to
visitors, and the tribe vanished from public view. Twelve years
later, a Swiss reporter hiked into the area and discovered that the
Tasaday were actually farmers whom Elizalde had coerced into
dressing in leaves and posing with stone tools. The
"anthropological find of the century" had become the "ethnographic
hoax of the century." Or maybe not. Robin Hemley tells a story that
is more complex than either the hoax proponents or the authenticity
advocates might care to admit. It is a gripping and ultimately
tragic tale of innocence found, lost, and found again. The author
provides an afterword for this Bison Books edition.
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