![]() The BBC is the gift that seems to keep on giving to Neuroanthropology this week. All have made it abundantly clear their wishes: stay away. Survival International reports that about one hundred groups around the world prefer to be left alone. They refuse to become enmeshed with their neighbours, to give up their ways of life and languages, or to find some way to earn the local currency or trade goods. ![]() Although we sometime call them ‘uncontacted,’ a more accurate description is probably ‘voluntarily isolated’ or ‘withdrawn’ or ‘evasive.’ Many of these groups have tragic histories of encounters with outsiders - too much ‘contact’ - where they fought to preserve their isolation and, usually, came up much worse off than their more numerous intruders. In small pockets around the world live isolated indigenous communities, groups that, even though they have had run-ins with their neighbours or Westerners, prefer to avoid or resist any further contact. I originally published this on 9 February 2011.) I suspect many of the links in this piece will be broken, but I will endeavour to try to slowly rebuild this content. If you have any requests, don’t hesitate to email me at: greg.downey mq (dot) edu (dot) au. ![]() Some of these, I am putting up because I teach with them. ( I am republishing ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other founding PLOS Blogs.
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