Without a doubt deforestation is eating up the Amazon Forest in the name of progress. However, what are the healthy and unhealthy aspects of development and progress? We are beginning to see how disconnected we have become from each other and consequently from our fundamental values. The challenge is how do we connect those aspects again and how do we help people to see it. Survival International has helped endangered tribes around the world for 40 years to keep their lands and protect their lives. More importantly, the relief agency trust that is the public awareness what is key in order to generate change.
Survival International hired us, a group of anthropologists, in order to research new fundamental questions that are essential to be …show more content…
Our goal was to spend 21 weeks at Tiracambu within the Awa Indian Reserve using participant observation in order to get immersed in the daily activities of the tribe. The research team in charge of the study included: a cultural anthropologist which performed a cross-cultural study in how other Amazonian tribes behaved after being removed from their lands, if they had some outside contact how and by whom were they contacted, and if there were able to develop new relationships with foreigners; an archaeologist who studied the agricultural practices in the past by the Awa tribe, according to the Journal of Anthropological Research, Gender, Power, and Mobility Among The Awá-Guaja (Maranhao, Brazil) (2011), their mobility and the reasons that made them a hunter-gatherer tribe nowadays; and a linguistic anthropologist, who knew the Awa language in detail in order to perform every interview and extract the deep connection the tribe have to the jungle in order to find relational …show more content…
There are 200 to 350 people left within the Awa community and regardless the efforts of Survival International to preserve their environment, the Awa people are in their way of being assimilated. The first insight we had for the the agency was to urge them to find ways to conduct controlled contact and build bridges of communications with the Awa tribes as well as, with the corporations and the Brazil’s government. Diversity is also listening to each other in our cultural differences. We encouraged the relief agency to facilitate meetings, with all the sides involved, to deeply listen and find that point of humanity as a way to get to the heart of the stories that really matter. This kind of action will take them to unknown territories, it will give rise to ask different questions and they will reach new points of understanding that will come out of their differences. We also recommended new campaigns focused in people who live in highly industrialized and rich countries who have a feeling that even if they do not have the resources within their borders they can get them from whatever these resources are. It is crucial show them that even if they are able to buy those resources, there
Survival International hired us, a group of anthropologists, in order to research new fundamental questions that are essential to be …show more content…
Our goal was to spend 21 weeks at Tiracambu within the Awa Indian Reserve using participant observation in order to get immersed in the daily activities of the tribe. The research team in charge of the study included: a cultural anthropologist which performed a cross-cultural study in how other Amazonian tribes behaved after being removed from their lands, if they had some outside contact how and by whom were they contacted, and if there were able to develop new relationships with foreigners; an archaeologist who studied the agricultural practices in the past by the Awa tribe, according to the Journal of Anthropological Research, Gender, Power, and Mobility Among The Awá-Guaja (Maranhao, Brazil) (2011), their mobility and the reasons that made them a hunter-gatherer tribe nowadays; and a linguistic anthropologist, who knew the Awa language in detail in order to perform every interview and extract the deep connection the tribe have to the jungle in order to find relational …show more content…
There are 200 to 350 people left within the Awa community and regardless the efforts of Survival International to preserve their environment, the Awa people are in their way of being assimilated. The first insight we had for the the agency was to urge them to find ways to conduct controlled contact and build bridges of communications with the Awa tribes as well as, with the corporations and the Brazil’s government. Diversity is also listening to each other in our cultural differences. We encouraged the relief agency to facilitate meetings, with all the sides involved, to deeply listen and find that point of humanity as a way to get to the heart of the stories that really matter. This kind of action will take them to unknown territories, it will give rise to ask different questions and they will reach new points of understanding that will come out of their differences. We also recommended new campaigns focused in people who live in highly industrialized and rich countries who have a feeling that even if they do not have the resources within their borders they can get them from whatever these resources are. It is crucial show them that even if they are able to buy those resources, there