Yanomami voices

During a break in the "Amazon Tragedy: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy and the Ethics of Research" conference session in Call Auditorium of Kennedy Hall, April 6, Toto Yanomami, second from left, leader of the Yanomami community in Tootobi, Brazil, discusses the use of medicinal plants to treat various illnesses with, from left, Terence Turner, Cornell professor of anthropology; Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, leader of the Yanomami community of Demini, Brazil; Associate Professor Gale Goodwin Gomez, of Rhode Island College; and Eloy Rodriguez, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell. Charles Harrington/University Photography