i am not into vampires.
EDIT: If the above video isn’t working, you can watch it here.
(via brain-food)
Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage
For the first time, extraordinary aerial footage of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes has been released. Survival’s new film, narrated by Gillian Anderson, has launched our campaign to help protect the earth’s most vulnerable peoples. To find out more go to: uncontactedtribes.org
I think the study and documentation of cultures on the brink of extinction is both fascinating and extremely important.
Last night I saw the Oscar nominated documentary short films and one of them (Sun Come Up) tells the story of a group of people in a similar situation. The inhabitants of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea are being forced off their land due to rising ocean levels caused by global warming. Salt water flooding has rendered their farm land barren and they would starve without the occasional emergency rice drop-off from the government. The Carteret people know they must plan for the future by scouting out a new place to live. Members of their community journey to the main land to visit fifteen villages over three weeks, pleading for any land the locals might allow the Carteret people to migrate to. They eventually find a group willing to accept five families for now, and the tribes are “married” in a ceremony. The plan is to move all of the Carteret people to the mainland over the next ten years. But there’s a bigger picture beyond this community: the rising ocean waters are expected to displace 50 million islanders in the south pacific. Over the coming decades these people will move and begin to blend cultures with new neighbors, and generations from now some of their original customs and traditions will fade away. This is why I think cultural anthropology is so crucial.
