If only life were so simple. (anthropology - fascination with primitives) (Horizons)

U.S. News & World Report | February 19, 1990| | Copyright

If only life were so simple

Thus National Geographic writer Kenneth MacLeish described the Tasaday, a band of 24 people discovered in 1971 living in a remote rain forest on the Philippine island of Mindanao. Considered the most primitive tribe on earth, the Tasaday appeared to be relics of a Garden of Eden from the Stone Age, a people so simple they lacked even the words for war or weapons. With no pottery, metal, art or songs, they huddled in smoke-filled caves and ate only what they could catch with their hands in the forest. Western journalists flocked to ...

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