When I was working in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Waorani people, who had only recently been contacted, believed only other Waorani were human beings. This creat

When I was working in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Waorani people, who had only recently been contacted, believed only other Waorani were human beings. This created several difficult situations because they saw nothing wrong with attacking and in some cases killing "non-humans" they came in contact with. My understanding is that many other native people in the Amazon used to share a similar view of their own unique human-ness