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Old 06-08-2008, 08:44 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by abaya
Why don't y'all become anthropologists and head down to those newly-"discovered" people groups in the Amazon... did anyone hear about those in the news last week or two? Anthropologists (or missionaries) who used to go into those villages stood a good chance of being shot with an arrow at first sight. (They were photographed aiming arrows up at the plane, during the flyover... poor people, must have freaked them out badly.)

There's a reason I do urban fieldwork.
Yeah, my roommate told us about that--anthropology is his hobby. We wondered if they'd never seen an airplane flying overhead before, or a contrail--and if they had, how did they explain it? It reminded me a bit of The Gods Must Be Crazy.
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