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Supposedly this is due to intertribal trade, rather than direct contact with the larger outside communities.
by RK 16y ago
Supposedly this is due to intertribal trade, rather than direct contact with the larger outside communities.
- fingerprinter 16y agoIs there some number of links that would make this tribe 'contacted' then? I would have assumed 'uncontacted' meant 'no knowledge of outside world at all' but it seems not. Having this tribe get a machete and pot and see a plane makes it feel pretty 'contacted'. Not that I want to quibble over some definition...
- RK 16y agoI would make a Facebook joke here, but... I think that they mean that these people have not been in direct contact with non-tribal people. It sounds like most of them are very isolated. Even the other tribes that have contact with the mainstream society seem to have little to no contact with these "uncontacted" tribes. This is mostly info I read on that website and related links, i.e. I'm not an expert.
- seanos 16y agoIf they like trading pots and knives with other tribes, maybe they would like to trade with the wider world if they were given the opportunity?