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by klenwell 1318 days ago
On this topic, I find this article fascinating:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087

But life in New Jersey was not working out for Yarima. It wasn't the weather, food or modern technology but the absence of close human relations. The Yanomami day begins and ends in the shapono, open to relatives, friends, neighbours and enemies. But Yarima's day in the US began and ended in a closed box, cut off from society.

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There's a related documentary of the immense damage brought by paleontologists to those tribes on netflix.

I thought about her too reading the comment.

How do people who study dinosaur fossils damage tribes?
You're right, it was late, I meant anthropologists.