Sensational accusations that anthropologists mistreated Venezuela's Yanomamoe Indians while studying them continue to roil the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Last week, AAA members voted 846-338 to rescind the association's report on the charges, which were leveled almost 5 years ago in journalist Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado. Although opposition to the referendum was "very vocal," says Thomas Headland, an anthropological consultant to SIL International in Dallas, Texas, who supported it, "I guess there's a silent majority among the 11 or 12 thousand members of the AAA."
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机译：关于人类学家在研究委内瑞拉亚诺马莫印第安人时对他们的虐待，这起耸人听闻的指责继续困扰着美国人类学协会（AAA）。上周，AAA成员以846-338的投票结果通过了该协会关于这些指控的报告，该报告在大约5年前的新闻记者Patrick Tierney的《 Dorness in El Dorado》一书中提出。得克萨斯州达拉斯的SIL International的人类学顾问托马斯·海德兰德（Thomas Headland）说，尽管对全民公决的反对是“非常发声的”，但我认为在AAA的11或12,000名成员中，沉默的多数。
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