Invented Eden - Info and Reading Options
The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
By Robin Hemley
"Invented Eden" is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 21, 2003, it has 352 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Invented Eden” Metadata:
- Title: Invented Eden
- Author: Robin Hemley
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 352
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: May 21, 2003
- Library of Congress Classification: DS666.T32 H46 2003DS666.T32H46 2003
“Invented Eden” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Impostors and imposture - Social life and customs - Tasaday (Philippine people) - Public opinion - Anthropological ethics - Philippines, social life and customs
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL7423128M - OL2033133W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 50670547
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2002032547
- ISBN-13: 9780374177164
- ISBN-10: 0374177163
- All ISBNs: 0374177163 - 9780374177164
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Snippets and Summary:
Toward the end of the NBC Nightly News on July 16, 1971, David Brinkley announced in his oddly measured way, "The outside world ... after maybe a thousand years has discovered a small tribe of people living in a remote jungle in the Philippines.
"Invented Eden" Description:
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"In 1971, a band of twenty-six "Stone Age" rain-forest dwellers was discovered living in total isolation by Manuel Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background. The tribe was soon featured in nightly American newscasts and graced the cover of National Geographic. They were visited by such celebrities as Charles Lindbergh and Gina Lollobrigida. But after a series of aborted anthropological forays, the 45,000-acre Tasaday Reserve established by Ferdinand Marcos was closed to all 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 who had been coerced by Elizalde into dressing in leaves and posing in caves with stone tools. Soon 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 Tasaday advocates might care to admit. At the center of it is a group of very poor people who have been buffeted by forces beyond their control. Were the Tasaday the creation of gullible journalists, bumbling scientists, and an ego-driven madman, or were they the innocent victims of cynical academics and politicos? In answering that question, Hemley has written a tale of innocence found, lost, and found again."--Jacket.
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