hey yo!
I just wanted to say what up!
My friend sent me this link on newly discovered tribes in Brazil...with no contact to the outside world at all.
Thanks again for everything last weekend. You guys are real cool and friendly.
-b
I think Dinah might have mentioned this story when we were visting but it seems relevant. Dinah, do you have the link for the interview in AN?
yea i remember dinah mentioning the story about the film crew wanting to interact with "real natives"
I fear that the popularity of this might make more people want to go and meet these people. Kinda like the forbidden fruit ya know?
i saw that on the bbc last night. i wonder how inbred they are. maybe the bright red and jet black color of their skin isn't painted on!
hahaha! i thought that at first too, especially after dinah's story about the blue people.
But then i read another article about it where they said the actually flew over two times that day. The first time they weren't painted. The second time they were, and they were ready to fight. So its a mixture of war paint for the males, and camouflage paint for the females.
We really should be careful about the language we use to talk about these folks though. Physical and social isolation does not make people another species, just somewhat unusual.
Man, those people must be really freaked out to have never talked to any outside people and then get buzzed by a copter twice in the same day.
What'll probably happen now is cameras will be hidden all through that area and they'll become the next hit reality show.
now now eli, isn't making fun of these people like a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it?
okay... i was just saying that to rile you up ;)
now, i'm all for protecting their land and i understand the threat of disease, but, if we set out a law that these people are not to be contacted in any way, are we treating them as people or as some sort of specimen or archaeological relic? are we essentially saying that we can not give them a choice, because they can not decide for themselves which life will be better for them?
eli, you know i and agata don't believe these people are another species. but, if i were making fun of inbred people in west virginia having, say three eyes (a claim which i think is as ridiculous as the one i made about their skin color), would you have made that same comment? why are these people more worth defending?
i'm sorry if the tone of this comes across as harsh. i don't mean it to. i do wish to engage you in discussion on these topics, however, eli. i miss these discussions that we used to have in person. :D
My only concern was to consider how language and media is used to describe this event, specifically in those terms of "specimen" or "relic," that make indigenous groups an unknowable other. The same terminology is certainly applied to isolated Appalachian communities, which is problematic for many of the same reasons. I am confident we are all on the same page, but language can be such an important issue in these cases.
I miss doing this in person, also. I don't know if I am a good enough writer to make my argument without acting like a jerk.
hilarious spoof pic that hit the Digg a few days back:
this is a riff on the key of douchebag
I agree, Eli. From some in the news commentary, I was hearing what seemed like paternalism to me. I'm sorry I erroneously conflated their opinion with yours.
Hi all. For those of you who have a print copy of AN, the article Agata referenced is in the May issue on page 30. It's an interview with an ethnographic filmmaker.
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