The fuss over Survival International’s “uncontacted tribes” (see my earlier piece) hasn’t ceased — the Huffington Post and others continue to spread the original news largely uncritically. (William at the excellent Integral Options Cafe shared that news, but has now kindly amended his post in response to my own comment regarding it.) Now Greg Downey […]
Posts Tagged ‘uncontacted tribes’
Not ‘uncontacted,’ just ‘free’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Decolonization, Fourth World, indigenous, uncontacted tribes on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First contact (again & again)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, anthropology, Decolonization, ethnography, Fourth World, indigenous, photography, uncontacted tribes on February 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to the “Jungles” segment of BBC’s Human Planet series, Survival International’s photos of an “uncontacted tribe” in the Amazon are making the rounds once again — see Environmental Graffiti’s “Images of the Last Uncontacted Tribe on Earth“, Ron Burnett’s “Never Before Seen Footage of an Amazonian Tribe,” and MSNBC’s PhotoBlog. The rhetoric here — […]