![]() ![]() The authorities then declared that no further attempts would be made to contact the Sentinelese. An Indian Coast Guard helicopter which flew over the island after the 2004 Asian Tsunami was attacked with arrows. Starting in the 1960s, anthropologists succeeded in exchanging gifts and conducting field visits but abandoned their efforts some 25 years ago in the face of renewed hostility. Here's another helicopter picture, and informative article: Brief visits have been paid to the island but the Sentinelese remain untouched by modern civilisation. Was looking for a link of The Sentinelese chucking arrows at a helicopter, and came upon this article:Īttacked By Andaman Tribe, Coast Guard Officer's Terrifying Account As far as I know, there was no real attempt to retrieve the body. “stone age” probably wasn’t meant pejoratively thoughĪlso, the men who boated him over got arrested (because everyone knows not to bother The Sentinelese. as david graeber and almost all academics note, the government and “civilisations” emerged because they were incredibly efficient violence-doers, who destroyed the non-state populations around them, not because they were better to live in (they were not). that is a deeply backwards perspective to have on other cultures, or hunter-gatherers generally. this causes quite the debate about the gap between how these stories are understood by news media organisations (who believed this killing was immoral and maybe even deserved retribution) and professional anthropologists (who generally perceived the killing as not only acceptable but legitimately claimable as self-defence)Īlso whilst i’m here, i don’t like the use of “like the stone age” in the title - it suggests hunter gatherers are in some major way less evolved or intelligent than us in modern societies - at least to me it signals “primitive”. If you want a piece of content that belongs to you to be removed from /r/interestingasfuck then please file a copyright notice here.īy contrast a protestant evangelical called John Allen Chau was killed on one of his later visits when he went with a bible to do some classic colonialist enlightening. Please mark spoilers like this: >!text here!< Click/tap to read. Reposting as a very new account might get you bannedĪll posts by new users require mod approval in order to weed out spammers. We require new users to post original content, not lazy reposts. Serial reposters may be filtered or banned.Įstablished accounts will get escalating bans if they willfully ignore the posting rules Reposts of images on the front page, or within the set limit of /r/interestingasfuck/top, will be removed more> Any racism, bigotry, or any other kind of hate speech is strictly prohibited and will result in a ban. No self-promotion, bots or any kind of spam. No personal information, doxing, witch hunt, brigading, or any subreddit-related meta-drama. Titles must be descriptive and directly related to the content more> A place to share (almost) anything and everything interesting as fuck.
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