Tuesday, March 4, 2014

A Tribe Is Discovered-----Irene

Today I read an article"A Tribe Is Discovered" the story is like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie, but this time it is for real. Photograph from a passing airplane, colorful figures can be see in a  clearing in the Amazonian rainforest. Two men at the overhead threat, and they are paint bright orange with paint made from an Amazonian tree. Author says just feet behind them, a figure paint black also stares up into the sky. Beyond them, the entire village is coming to life. Other tribesmen emerge from traditional thatched longhouses and prepare to fight, while young children run for safety. We can images of the village are record and the tribe's existence is truly to the outside world.
The group lives in six huts in Acre region of the Brazilian rainforest on the Brazil Peru border and have had no known contact with the "civilized" world. The body language of the Acre tribe suggests that they have a way of life worth defending. They have develop world, but they appear to be content without them.
"we did the overflight to show their house, to show they are there, to show they exist," said Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, groups of people who live without significant contact with modern civilization. This is very important.
However, how long will it be before wealthy adventurers and tourists go in search of a unique Amazonian experience? How long will it be before illegal loggers attempt to clear them off their land to cut down valuable wood from trees.
Their discovery to create a problem that it has to be dealt with a moral dilemma for the authorities. Should the Acre tribe be left alone to continue their content lifestyle for as long as they can? or should contact be forced by well intentioned scientists to prepare the uncontacted tribe for its inevitable first encounter with the twenty-first century.
Dr. Nicole Bourque, a Glasgow University anthropologist who has studied Amazonian cultures, says that views  are divided even among experts. Others, probably the majority, will say more contact is inevitable. At least then the first outsiders they meet are decent people. It is impossible to calculate how many tribes of uncontacted people survive in the world's jungles. The best guess of experts is that around 100 small groups of remain. How many of these tribes are genuinely unaware of the modern world is also unknown.
Last year, Hill traveled to Peru to interview the remaining members of the tribe. Now, the group lives in a more conventional village and has adopted Western style clothing and a money based economy. Hill is delighted that last week's image of the Acre tribe made global headlines. However, he firmly recommends leaving the Acre tribe on its own. He said "we would warn strongly against further contact,'' citing the proven threat of disease.
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