Isolated in the jungles of Peru the Mashco Piro tribe may be near the end of its isolated existence. First Loggers are moving in to their Lands and now Oil Gas and Mining operations will end 1000's of years of existence and way of life.
Loss of the Mashco Piro one of the last Stone Age Tribes
by designs 66 Replies latest social current
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ziddina
Oh, no....
That is a tragedy beyond words!!!
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james_woods
Oh, no....
That is a tragedy beyond words!!!
Well, in some ways - I guess so. On the other hand, don't these people deserve to be part of normal 21st century society?
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designs
It is amazing that they have survived the European invasion of the past 400 years, pretty remarkable. The Native Nations and Tribes here were not so lucky. Who told them or had the right to say 'your home and land is no longer yours'.
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botchtowersociety
They haven't been "lost"--at least not yet. They've had outside contact before.
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ziddina
I'm surprised that they survived the "outside world's" diseases, intact, in that case...
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botchtowersociety
I'm surprised that they survived the "outside world's" diseases, intact, in that case...
They went deeper into the wilderness.
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james_woods
They haven't been "lost"--at least not yet. They've had outside contact before.
Not to say that this is the case here - but does anybody remember the "lost tribe" in New Guinea or the Phillipines published about in National Geographic in the late 1960s? There was even a TV special made on them. Turned out that they actually lived most of the year in regular society, and just did the primative tribe act when the reporters and archeologists came to observe them. Quite embarrassing for NatGeo, who is usually very careful about their stories.
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ziddina
James_Woods, that is a "tragedy beyond words", because a VERY ancient way of life - that we could learn MUCH from - is going extinct.
The question would be - how to study such a way of life, without altering it?? [An old "Star TreK TNG" episode comes to mind...]
How would anthropologists study, without bringing in "modern" diseases, altering the tribe's perception of their world, or addicting them to "conveniences" that would demand destruction of their environment - automobiles - requiring the oil that's under their lands; "appliances" - requiring the damming of their rivers for electricity; "better housing"- requiring logging of wood and mining of the minerals for metals for nails, aluminum siding, tin roofing, and so on...
They'd be left with another dirty little "frontier" town full of alcoholism, disease, hunger and futility...
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designs
The wilderness, the Rain Forest, is their home. Petroglyphs were discovered on their land, gives some idea how ancient they are.
They shot arrows at some intruders, can't imagine what their perception is of Bulldozers showing up to take down ancient forests.