Rare photos of uncontacted tribe now threatened by logging companies

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/17/rare-photos-of-uncontacted-tribe-now-threatened-by-logging-companies.html

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[Rufus_Sanders]

Zap 'em with your siren, man!

[ToMajorTom]

I sort of envy their innocence concerning the rest of the world.

[GagHalfrunt]

There’s a hypothesis that “uncontacted” tribes are descended from people who moved deeper into the Amazon to escape encroaching colonisers. If they remember their history they won’t have any “innocence” about the outside world.

[Otherbrother]

@GagHalfrunt

There’s a hypothesis that “uncontacted” tribes are descended from people who moved deeper into the Amazon to escape encroaching colonisers. If they remember their history they won’t have any “innocence” about the outside world.

Well this particular tribe has certainly gone through some shit in the past. There was even a Werner Herzog film about it.

Mashco-Piro

In 1894, most of the Mashco-Piro tribe was slaughtered by the private army of Carlos Fitzcarrald, in the upper Manú River area.[8] Many Mascho-Piro natives were also enslaved by Fitzcarrald’s foreman, Carlos Scharff between 1897-1909 along the Purús and Madre de Dios Rivers.[9] The survivors retreated to the remote forest areas.

Fitzcarraldo

[anon61221983]

I am very skeptical of this “uncontacted tribe” narrative… most likely, these are people who DID have contact with colonizers sometime in the their past and have since made the choice to avoid western civilization… They’ve made a conscious CHOICE to not be modernize, most likely.

@GagHalfrunt

There’s a hypothesis that “uncontacted” tribes are descended from people who moved deeper into the Amazon to escape encroaching colonisers. If they remember their history they won’t have any “innocence” about the outside world.

[vlark]

Headline is misleading. I want to know why the logging company is threatening rare photographs. Also, is the tribe featured in the photos or does the tribe own the photographs? Yes, I’m being a grammar pedant.

[Malarkey]

[Artor]

I think you are correct, much like the narrative about the “uncontacted” North Sentinel Islanders. They actually have a well-documented and rather horrifying history of contact with outsiders, and plenty of good reasons to remain separate from others. The Andaman Islands used to be home to multiple different tribes of natives, but only a few hundred individuals remain now.

[micah]

And no comment about the anthropologist’s misuse of “comprised”?

When asked that question they respond in 7000 different languages, and these collectively comprise our human repertoire for dealing with all the challenges that will confront us as a species even as we continue this never ending journey.