In light of this week’s news of the killing of an American man in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman’s by an isolated tribe, this book excerpt on Scroll.in is a fascinating read on what remains one of the last bunch of humans completely isolated from the rest of humanity and how very little is known about them. Indeed, it highlights the paradox of how the isolation has somewhat kept them alive (due to the tribe’s lack of immunity to modern human diseases) yet the actions of the rest of humanity (climate change) might eventually send them to extinction.
“I had decidedly mixed feelings about the trip. The Sentinel Islanders should be left alone, I completely believed. On the other hand, many fishermen approached the island because of its rich waters, and one heard of foreign poachers as well. I felt I needed to know if the islanders were interacting with outsiders, for that was the beginning of the end. But I recognized that most anyone could construct a rationale for why she and no one else should have access to an endangered people….What would kill off the Sentinel islanders, ultimately, would not be the impoverished populations nearby, which are now held at bay. It would be the flatulence of the wealthy society where I lived, at the other end of the globe.”
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