A Critical Review of Into the Amazon by Scott Wallace
I. Introduction
Uncontacted people, also identified as isolated tribes, are known to be found in dense forest mostly in South America, Central Africa, New Guinea and India. These groups live without any contact with the civilization due to voluntary isolation or life circumstances, and their main characteristic is that they survive within their lands by hunting and gathering aliment from the nature. The majority of tribes speak isolated languages; however, it is known that some tribes, such as Mashco-Piro people, share several similarities in their language with surrounding civilized tribes so that they understand each other when they encounter, rarely to ask for food and tools. Moreover, …show more content…
Written by Scott Wallace in 2003 and published by The National Geographic Magazine, the article “Into the Amazon” mainly describes an expedition that takes places in the remote jungles of Brazil in which Sydney Possuelo, a well-known Brazilian explorer and social activist, leads a group of 34 men in order to find out about where an uncontacted tribe called The Flecheiros live to protect them from intruders. The article states that the crew was integrated also by some members of another group of Indians called The Kanamari who agreed to help Possuelo in the journey. After almost one month, the crew arrived to the land of The Flecheiros and also known as Arrow People because this Indian Tribe in order to protect their territory, they use poison-tipped projectiles. It is estimated that 1350 Indians belong to The Flecheiros and they may be the largest uncontacted tribe in the world. The article claims that Possuelo’s mission is not to make contact with The Flecheiros but rather to find information about their territory’s boundaries to protect their lands, and that is why the crew does not need to know about their language or religion, everything else should remain a mystery. The only thing that the crew was sure about The Flecheiros was that they are very violent and this characteristic motives Possuelo because tribes like this one are willing to do anything to defend their lands and the forest to maintain their cultural vibrancy and
I. Introduction
Uncontacted people, also identified as isolated tribes, are known to be found in dense forest mostly in South America, Central Africa, New Guinea and India. These groups live without any contact with the civilization due to voluntary isolation or life circumstances, and their main characteristic is that they survive within their lands by hunting and gathering aliment from the nature. The majority of tribes speak isolated languages; however, it is known that some tribes, such as Mashco-Piro people, share several similarities in their language with surrounding civilized tribes so that they understand each other when they encounter, rarely to ask for food and tools. Moreover, …show more content…
Written by Scott Wallace in 2003 and published by The National Geographic Magazine, the article “Into the Amazon” mainly describes an expedition that takes places in the remote jungles of Brazil in which Sydney Possuelo, a well-known Brazilian explorer and social activist, leads a group of 34 men in order to find out about where an uncontacted tribe called The Flecheiros live to protect them from intruders. The article states that the crew was integrated also by some members of another group of Indians called The Kanamari who agreed to help Possuelo in the journey. After almost one month, the crew arrived to the land of The Flecheiros and also known as Arrow People because this Indian Tribe in order to protect their territory, they use poison-tipped projectiles. It is estimated that 1350 Indians belong to The Flecheiros and they may be the largest uncontacted tribe in the world. The article claims that Possuelo’s mission is not to make contact with The Flecheiros but rather to find information about their territory’s boundaries to protect their lands, and that is why the crew does not need to know about their language or religion, everything else should remain a mystery. The only thing that the crew was sure about The Flecheiros was that they are very violent and this characteristic motives Possuelo because tribes like this one are willing to do anything to defend their lands and the forest to maintain their cultural vibrancy and