Isolated / undiscovered tribe found in Brazil

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/americas_enl_1212096773/img/1.jpg

Cool huts!

Huts isn't really the right word though- long houses would be better...

I was thinking they reminded me of Viking houses, but when I think about it they don't really. They are cool, though.

I wonder what the tribespeople made of the plane? Possibility for a cargo cult type thing one would think!

It looks like they thought "oh no, dangerous enemy!" I don't think you can have a cargo cult without contact, anyway.

New tribe primary beverage tango - reuters 11:36.

The blue guy seems kinda lonely among the red dudes. Maybe he's the gay member of the tribe?

Or is that a woman?

Are they holding bows up? They're probably a bit freaked out by the vehicle flying overhead.

I think I see a Starbucks coffee cup.

Yeah bows.

Previously isolated tribe in Brazil - what's on your iPod?

Max Romeo - Chase the Devil

These people know more about the internet than Gordon Brown.

I think the fact that nobody has contacted them is interesting. Too many thoughts bouncing around in my head in different directions to say why at the moment, though.

Also, I started a thread for pictures of cool houses like these: Houses and roofs made of plants! (picture thread)

I assume they are very isolated indeed if some people doubt their very existence.

Hoax?

Unreleased stills from Apocalypto.

Lost season finale gamechanger spoilered.

I will be really disappointed if this is a hoax. Like, it's in some way related to my faith in humanity.

Have they got a Facebook yet?

Have they heard that Louis J is back on ILX yet?

Why would it be a hoax? It's not April Fool's day or anything. And "more than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru" so it's not like they're unique, one-off, never seen before or since.

The article implies the Brazilian government knew they were there.

Those pictures were taken just after they heard about chaki's meltdown.

Well there is a difference between undiscovered and uncontacted. But you're suggesting they said to some contacted tribe "hey go out and shake yr sticks when we fly over"?

it could be a hoax, it's been done before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasaday

So, who's going to contact them, catch one, dissect him, turn them into christians? Or are we going to leave them alone? (too late now, they had to fly low to have their stupid pictures, didn't they? *shakes head*)

I bet they have seen planes before, but have just not been contacted.

It kind of sucks being them... if they are contacted, half of them will die of pneumonia and influenza, and if not then they get to spend the rest of their lives living as hunter gatherers. Eh, that makes it sound like the ones who don't die of influenza after being contacted will all be living like Paris Hilton, but I'll wager the survivors most-likely post contact social state would be wage slaves in some mining project.

it could be a hoax, it's been done before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasaday

-- Grandpont Genie, Friday, May 30, 2008 11:33 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

also this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71D4T0C173L._SL500_AA280_.gif

I'm willing to believe a completely isolated tribe would be totally freaked out by a fucking plane flying right above them, and possibly circling as well to enable the photographers to get a decent shot.

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yes, i just reminded you this movie existed *evil laugh*

I used to live next door to the guy who wrote the original book!

"I wonder what the tribespeople made of the plane?"

argh mel gibson! ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

Argh Ant and Dec! Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

"angelina and madonna, you're not getting any of my kids!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/image_maps/08/1212000000/1212143250/img/brazil_tribe_786.gif

nice one bbc.

phew! they saved my brain some work

I just sent in an Archer and got 50 gold.

that woman can totally be upgraded to an axewoman

I'm going to see if they'll trade that cotton supply for horses.

Krippendorf's Tribe was a great movie!

Jarl has declared war on Finland

this thread is roffletastic!

They're going to be arrested for tax evasion.

YOU CHOOSE DEATH OR MALOCAS

What would suck so much about remaining hunter gatherers?

deeznuts has never heard of brojobs

yeah wtf ever dude my whole point is we have a thread about undiscovered tribes & a guy comes along & says dudes who fuck other dudes arent actually gay & when i call him on it im the fucking troll

xp thats a lie elmo

haha

I think the one thing we can all agree that Civ jokes is how Nazi Germany got started.

Primitive Tribes: Have They Heard of Brojobs?

permaban deez time

hahahahaha going from the first post in this thread down to the last 5 or so is a little jarring

haha yeah i was thinking wow i never knew ilx wld be so interested in hidden rainforest tribe! but now of course i'm like ohhh

The decline of civilization, as it were.

If you do something dicky you're kind of a dick right then

Isn't "right then" the crucial phrase here, though?

i am interested in hidden rainforest tribe & in further explanation of how men who have sex w/ other men are not actually gay dassit

i mean seriously how am i responsible for this bs

deeznuts start a seperate thread maybe and we'll get back to the hidden rainforest tribe on this one?

Dude, if "having sex with someone of the same sex doesn't make you 'gay'" is a controversial opinion to you, you have missed out on several decades of human thought.

The short version is that "gay" and "homosexual" are cultural constructions, specific roles in specific cultures -- in ours they have to do with romantic attachments to people of the same sex. Whereas "same-sex" erotic behavior is a specific non-culture-bound act done by lots of people who wouldn't fit into our cultural role or identity of being gay or even necessarily bi (e.g., ancient Greeks, sailors, sorority girls near video cameras, swingers, people who do specific sexual stuff with the same sex but have zero romantic connection with them, whole complicated other-culture sexual roles involving trannies of various sorts, etc. -- the bulk of same-sex acts in the history of the planet do not really fit the current western notion of what it is to be "gay").

^^ This separation of neutral acts from cultural identities is a basic of most everything about "queer theory" and is generally considered non-controversial enough that Casuistry saw fit to zing/counter me with it, which he did really effectively because it really is a giant gaping exception to what I was saying

what nabisco said, except omit 'gaping' :\

Unless of course that's your thing.

OMG hey, can we bring this full-circle by talking about whichever uncontacted tribe it was in Brazil where that one anthropologist reported various same-sex erotic behaviors among them (which you wouldn't call "gay" because they had a whole other cultural system about that stuff), but then LATER there were accusations that they DIDN'T have same-sex erotic behaviors until the anthropologist was living among them, and that HE was the one getting on members and INTRODUCING same-sex behavior into the tribe?

THAT'S full circle????

It brings us back to the complications of contact with isolated Brazilian tribes!

'neutral acts'

(and yes plz that sounds interesting)

it's that damned homosexual agenda "the gays" keep pushing on everyone...they won't be satisfied until every last isolated group of peoples has become sodom and gomorrah

*full circle of applause*

a full gaping circle

goatse.br

i have to say the whole "men are painted completely red, women, blue" deal is super fascinating.

Yeah, considering our whole "girls=pink, boys=blue" thing.

yeah considering they are ORANGE and BLACK

apparently that color schema isn't that old!

http://feministing.com/archives/009162.html

xp all right whatever picky picky

lol deeznuts reps for Princeton

the point is a clear color signal that looks gendered. what's it like to live in that system? of course we've seen only half a dozen individuals in what could be a tribe of a few hundred, maybe a few thousand. maybe there are other colors out there? maybe it's not a gender thing at all.

xp lol deeznuts reps for halloween.

lol deeznuts reps for the Flyers

I REP FOR CORRECT VISION AND THAT IS ALL

It will be some kind of gender PLUS rank thing.

btw gff isnt it some kind of warpaint related thing? if you look at the pics with a bunch of them a lot of them dont seem to be dyed at all

you tell me eagle eyes

Telling, hearing, and finding humor in a racist joke does not require you to be or make you racist. And deeznuts really has been catching a lot of total BS flak lately.

I refuse to believe that Google Earth hasn't found them already.

Can we just go back to lazy, mild zings at primitives instead?

-- call all destroyer, Friday, May 30, 2008 3:08 PM (Friday, May 30, 2008 3:08 PM) Bookmark Link

It's what I call "Spending a Friday on ILX".

maybe we should move it to 77, so they can't find it?

"I refuse to believe that Google Earth hasn't found them already."

It has but there entire civilisation is one pixel

caek otm, sort of

the media was totally Krippendorf's Tribed.

link?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/amazon?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

and guess what? Google Earth did know all along!

'A friend of mine sent me some Google Earth co-ordinates and maps that showed a strange clearing in the middle of the forest and asked me what that was,' he said. 'I saw the co-ordinates and realised that it was close to the area I had been exploring with my son – so I needed to fly over it.'

'painted red means they are ready for war, which to me says they are happy and healthy defending their territory.'

To be fair the media/public invented the whole just found thing, it was stated in the initial reports that the aerial photographs were taken to prove they existed to loggers.

"The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land."

That blue chick is hot.

Smurfette?

Apparently this thing is making the internet rounds all over again, Kevin Smith just spent a recent podcast talking about it like this all just came out instead of almost three years ago.

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/