RE: [asa] uncontacted peoples ???!!!

I think your example below shows how society unconsciously treats
"moderns" as human and isolated tribes as "sub-human," kind of like how
slaves may have been considered sub-human. Also, "ignorance is bliss"
(we don't know of their terrible conditions (women death in childbirth,
etc.), so maybe they are doing just fine).

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of David Campbell
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [asa] uncontacted peoples ???!!!

About five years ago, the same issue of National Geographic had an
article championing leaving isolated Amazonian natives alone and an
article decrying the treatment of untouchables in India. They did not
seem to notice the contradiction between the call for non-intervention
and the call for action. Any culture has some good and some bad
features.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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