Uncontacted Tribes Found & Photographed
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Check out how freaked these mexicans are....
can you imagine??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm
can you imagine??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm
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Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil
One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.
The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.
The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.
More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says.
Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected.
'Monumental crime'
Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.
The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Acre region.
They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera.
"We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, as saying.
"This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence."
He described the threats to such tribes and their land as "a monumental crime against the natural world" and "further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world".
Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.
I'm pretty sure no Mexican people are living with the indigenous people of this tribe in Brazil.
The pictures are amazing, though. Hopefully they'll be left alone to keep doing what they're doing.
and still jonesing for another show....
"the waiting drove me mad..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm#cotton
seriously
it is like when the dudes who mow my lawn see my ipod or my laptop
just because they are mexican doesn't mean they eat people
i harken back to prince ahkeem when he is ask if that is "ultra-perm" in his hair
and might i remind you jeff dahmer ate people and he was white and american before he was sodomized to death with a broken mop handle
so there
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Exactly what the director of Funai said: we dont know nothing about them and the idea is keeping dont know.
Actually the brazilian government knows the challenge is great to guarantee those indigenous stay safe. Specially after the midia talked a lot about this. Amazonia is a land covet and Funai calculated a close of 40 tribes uncontacted in all the region. 20 is already knowed but still uncontacted.
hey genius look at the map of the world MEXICO is a bit farther up north from BRAZIL & PERU ,you hick ...
Don't listen to this guy. It's funny!
agreed they are one with the living world
It´s a link of the website of my friend Renato Soares, one photographer who has a great job with a lot of tribes in Amazonia (please, they arent crazy and no mexicans)..It´s very beatiful. He traveled with Orlando Vilas Boas, one incredible man who dedicated his life to make a serious study about this environment and the indigineous.
you are the savage you hick where ever you come from ...
yeah, except for multiple fly-by's.
~D.K.S.
See JeffBr's comment.
He isn't being an ass,
he's making an intelligent (though, perhaps controversial) observation.
He's saying the assumption that there was some "golden age" of tribal harmony with self, eachother, and nature is largely an erroneous one.
Man has always had some form of adversarial or antagonistic relationships, within the tribe, and with other tribes, and with the larger forces of nature. Further, the notion that the primitive man was some how at peace or one with himself and in a state of relative bliss is an unproven and likely naive notion.
I think that is all he was really getting at.
Before reacting to words,
we should all try to understand the words as they are written.
That is something i struggle with in this place all the time.
Reactionary responses that fail to even account for the sentiment the original poster was actually expressing are rampant around this place. Read, research, then respond.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I bet they were making taco's and tortillas when they got interrupted by the helicopter, so they got ticked.
Sigh...Mexico...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Actually it was a simple question. Why do you consider these people to be savage? You referred me to the original poster-racist-as evidenced by his remarks-but have yet to answer the fucking question.
it wasn't a racist remark, for crying out loud.
settle down.
go read what "noble savage" means.
first, "savage" as implicated in the term "noble savage" is a reference to ANY peoples who do not have contact with "modern" life and contrivances.
Tybird is just refuting another poster who is insinuating that these people are "at one with the living world".
That reference directly envokes the notion of "the noble savage", which is a literary term.
His response about there being no such thing as a noble savage was an etymological reference to the term, not some racist remark.
settle the fuck down, and understand what you are talking about before you start insulting people and jumping up and down like a raving looney.
jesus, people.
like i said.
Read. RESEARCH. THEN respond.
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/savage.
Who is to say they are not?
Which also implies meaning, whatever you call it. The definition is listed above. agreed, there is no such thing as a noble savage-so why use the phrase in reference to these people? interesting you see me jumping up and down like a raving looney, It's not about that. Simply a matter of principle.
So I have.
Yeah but they don't have Blackberries or iPods. So hah!
poor mexicans
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hahahahahahhaha
i just couldn't help it.:D
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Thats the definition for "SAVAGE", not "NOBLE savage".
You still have yet to get that straight.
Well, Tybrid was saying they aren't.
And Tybrid would be in the company of many good philosphers in recent history who have argued against the romanticized notion of a "noble savage".
Uh. "Agreed"?
Now you've just reversed 180 and agreed with the guy you called a racist two posts.
"Why use the phrase"?
Well, it seemed to change your mind.
Lol.
I still don't think you really get it.
Is there ANY one else out there that can jump in and deflect some of this heat, and help get a rational argument out to help explain this?
This is just silly.
All Tybrid did was respond to someone who was idealizing the life of "native" or "indigenous" tribal peoples. His response merely asserted that there is no such thing as a "noble savage".
In his argument, he reference an (apparently not so) well known literary term.
Why he got called a racist, and a savage hick for his remarkably literate comment is beyond me.
???
If I opened it now would you not understand?