Stone age tribe kill fishermen

very interesting.

Similar stories about severely isolated people who more or less became uncontacted are fascinating too. There were Japanese soldiers that either refused to surrender or had no idea WWII ended found well into the 1970s. Many Japanese POWs captured by the USSR never left. I read this book about a German tank officer (Wehrmacht, not SS) on a whim a few years ago and there's a part where his unit came across a village so isolated that the locals had no idea the country was at war. One of the woman asked him if the war had anything to do with "the Czar." It was the early 1940s and the whole are hadn't been in regular contact with the Russian government since the Revolution. There's also this incident were Russian Old Believers were found living in Siberia.

Fascinating, thanks for sharing

  On 2/3/2013 at 3:34 AM, ganus said:

the indian people in that video are so fucking rude. and yeah the people that flew over that tribe in brazil too...

anthropologically the best thing to do to preserve these micro-cultres is to just leave them alone entirely. it's pretty uncool to document their locations on wiki like that, even

very little difference between this and American presence in Africa or Afghanistan

  On 2/4/2013 at 5:41 PM, vamos scorcho said:

 

  On 2/3/2013 at 3:34 AM, ganus said:

the indian people in that video are so fucking rude. and yeah the people that flew over that tribe in brazil too...

anthropologically the best thing to do to preserve these micro-cultres is to just leave them alone entirely. it's pretty uncool to document their locations on wiki like that, even

very little difference between this and American presence in Africa or Afghanistan

...except there's a huge difference...?

none at all, actually. mudcrabs/oil... what difference does it make? wipe them out and take what you want, set up a base

and as for Darwin

The meddling in those regions for oil, logging, etc., sure. But such greedy efforts are hardly exclusive to Americans. In terms of the context you're talking about a basic interaction between the modern world and isolated ethnic groups, not another chapter in colonialism and post-colonialism conflict that has been ongoing for hundreds of years.