Monte Reel: "The Last of the Tribe"
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-06-23/monte-reel-last-tribe
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The story of a team of men who journey deep into the heart of the Amazon to find and protect a man believed to the lone survivor of an isolated tribe.
Guests
Monte Reel
South America correspondent for The Washington Post from 2004-2008
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I love your show.
I get increasingly more upset listening to shows such as today's where "researchers" invade regions where they don't belong in the name of anthropology. It must be a terrifying thing for this lone man to be stalked by such insensitive people.
I just wanted to say I love listening to your show. However I do agree with Joanzie, we tend to invade into these so called endeavors w/o any regards to ones personal space or livelihood. And somehow we find ways to rationalize our actions when in a fact it’s mainly for our own selfish motive(s).
First Joanzie, this researcher is not an anthropologist but a journalist. Second, this man would be dead by now except for the protection of these people. Believe me, many of those who moved to this area for profit only see him as a potential hinderance and would just as soon see him dead. Hopefully the Brazilian government will continue to support this humane policy, thanks in part to the endeavors of anthropologists, that differs so much from what that nation did only a few decades ago to indigenous populations.
An important element of the Ishi story, referenced in the segment, was that this "last wild man" in North America walked out of his isolation in search of human contact. Yes, it was because ranchers had systematically killed his people (and a party of surveyors went up Deer Creek and stole vital tools and supplies, condeming his mother, among others, to die that winter of exposure). Yes after living alone for many months, Ishi was on the verge of starvation and walked out of the Mt. Lassen wilderness -- he was found crouched in a slaughterhouse, terrified. The story of how he embraced his new life as a living museum exhibit is fascinating and complex.... Yes, this man should decide when and how (or if) he has contact with others -- but it's not outside the realm of possibility that he hungers for companionship of some kind...