Yanomami woman of Brazil’s
Amazon rain forest.
In 1982 I spent a month
sharing her people’s lives and a place at one of their fires for my hammock.
Though the Yanomami look primitive,
they have a keen sense of humor and are in no way less intelligent than us.
They know good from bad and could teach many of us how to better raise our children.
They could teach us many things, even if we have more to teach them.
What surprised me most of
the Yanomami was not their apparent differences, but how much like us they
really are. Though they lived isolated for hundreds or thousands of years, and were
first contacted only in the 1950s, I saw among them all the characters we deal
with every day in our own world. The
leader, the politician, the mediator, the actor, the bully, the clown, the
inventor, the philosopher, the artist, and even the paper shuffler. They only
needed the clothes, the tools, and the right surroundings to look the part.
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