Rare uncontacted Amazon tribe photographed from air.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Dion

LOL! Thats awesome

[blankall]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

With many of these tribes, they kill any intruders.

I guess that is a good way to keep the neighbours away and stay an "uncontacted tribe"..... jerks

[TheyCallMeBruce]

What they need to do is drop the mars rovers into that area.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Dion

Take that bag off your head. That is awesome.

[KTown]

When I first saw the photo I thought it was another expansion to World of Warcraft.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Hasn't there been a whole slew of Amazon Tribe hoaxes over the years? Have to admit, that's my first thought.

Even the august journal, The Nation Geographic, has fallen for these things.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Seems to me it'd be like giving everything I know up for flying cars and better internet access.

Where do I sign up?!?!?

The myth that people lived better lives before technology is perniciously influential; the fact (as attested by studies of groups making that transition out of this state) is that violence in such societies is endemic, life expectancies are short, and women are little more than chattel.

This doesn't mean that contact with more technologically advanced societies aren't cataclysmic experiences in which these peoples are to various degrees exploited, killed, or enslaved, but that is an unfortunate commentary on human nature in general rather than any sort of recommendation for a primitivist way of life.

[KTown]

Imagine hiking through the jungle and coming up on a tribe like this. At first it would be amazing then it would be like am I going to die?

[chris lindberg]

I am from a fly-in community in Northwestern Ontario, the future came very fast for us, we got our Hydro and plumbing in the early 80's, us kids were always playing outside until television came.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by jammies

Where do I sign up?!?!?

The myth that people lived better lives before technology is perniciously influential; the fact (as attested by studies of groups making that transition out of this state) is that violence in such societies is endemic, life expectancies are short, and women are little more than chattel.

Fair enough. I just disagree with the suggestion that these people will be "pissed" with anyone who tried to protect their chosen way of life and keep them ignorant of the modern miracles of electricity and air conditioning.

[schnee]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

It facinates me that in 2008, there are still stoneage people living in remote areas with no idea about the modern world. I have heard of this, but it still blows my mind.

Another Tasaday?

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Hasn't there been a whole slew of Amazon Tribe hoaxes over the years? Have to admit, that's my first thought.

Even the august journal, The Nation Geographic, has fallen for these things.

I'll be disappointed if that is the case here.

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

I wonder what the hell is going through their minds. This should be cross posted in the captions forum.

No, We Don't want to go to Edmonton

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Dion

Don't you hate it when that one person tries to be unique by wearing a different colour and just ends up ruining the C of Red?

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Dion

Always knew you had to be uncivilized to be a Flames fan.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Quick someone drop a coke bottle out the window.

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Always knew you had to be uncivilized to be a Flames fan.

I think you missed the meaning here of being a true survivor.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Thor

Problem with that is you don't just bring ancient tribes into a suburb of Chicago, but DAMN would that be good TV.

If you look at Africa as an example, its not like IF they knew about technology its not like they'd jump into some nice lifestyle..

http://www.discoverycivilization.ca/....aspx?sid=6697

The Curious Tribe captures a unique anthropological experiment in which award-winning reporter Donal MacIntyre hosts five members of the Insect Tribe of Papua New Guinea in his London home. Turning the tables on MacIntyre's previous visit to the tribe's jungle in Papua New Guinea, the tribe members swap their war paint for sweaters and travel to Britain to satisfy their own curiosities about the British way of life.

The Curious Tribe is a look at the ordinary things Western society takes for granted. The tribesmen experience England and its culture for the first time and through their eyes we begin to discover that some of our own customs and eccentricities are every bit as ritualized as theirs. Snow, escalators, beds, and football are just a few of the things the tribe members encounter in this eye-opening series.

I think these guys are happier just living their own little happy lives

Agreed.


As for the photo. It's remarkable (if true?), and let's just leave these people alone. Yes we can banter all day about the injustice of denying them air conditioning. But let's face it, there are billions of people around the world living without our precious conditioned air as it is. How about we sort out there -- and our -- problems first before thinking we have to solve these people's problems as well.

[mykalberta]

How much of a prick do you need to be to photograph those people without their permission. That has ######bag written on it on so many levels I cannot begin to start.

Just leave these people alone, they arent causing anyone any harm.

[koop]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

How much of a prick do you need to be to photograph those people without their permission. That has ######bag written on it on so many levels I cannot begin to start.

Just leave these people alone, they arent causing anyone any harm.

I think the people taking the pictures have no desire to bother them. If you read the article in the one link the prick (uncontacted tribes expert) who was part of the group taking pictures was talking about how they were in danger of coming in contact with illegal logging, and was trying to show people that these tribes are out there, and is trying to help get their land protected through these pictures.

What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world,’ said Meirelles.

What a ######bag!!!!