First Contact (BBC4 Anthropology Season) - Part 4 of 6

Adventurous and high-paying tourists are being offered the chance to make "first contact" with some of the world's last remaining uncontacted tribes.




First contact with the outside world usually spells disaster for genuine uncontacted tribes.




Presented by Mark Anstice, an experienced expedition leader and author of a book also called First Contact, this film looks at the complex issues surrounding the ethics of first contact and meets the people involved.

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• Anthropology
• Documentary

[laxgoalieguy30]

this is sad. Leave them alone.

[ralf5387]

That Kelly guy needs to go home to Wisconsin

[Samyaza69]

@laxgoalieguy30 is a hoax buddy anyway! I bet right now they are using facebook on their iPad!

[MacktheFilet]

@MrAndrejPopov I'm not so sure. Anthropologists usually say that we should learn what we can from these people while they are still around. We shouldn't consider this a successful society in comparison with ours. The fact is that these tribes are probably going very soon. If we can't save them then we can at least learn from them while they are here.

[MacktheFilet]

@LackadaisicalE Anthropology is a science. Ignorance is a waste.

[LackadaisicalE]

lol that fat cow being interviewed, she spews out so much crap Im speechless..well obviously not entirely speechless.

[LackadaisicalE]

@kropotkinbeard1 its not a science at all, its just art (bullshit made up on the fly by well-meaning idiots)

[MrAndrejPopov]

laxgoalieguy is completely right.

[SalsaTiger83]

Probably these groups are even lowering the tribes' risk of disease by introducing their immune system to low doses of "civilized bugs". Eventually loggers or miners will come and infect them anyway.

[dannyjam]

In the middle of a tropical jungle with weird ass fish and bugs and they go for a swim in that shit? No way.

[justinmathew111]

You know?