Anth 50 film response 2

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Aaron Barillas Anthropology 304-50 Professor Erickson February 2, 2023 Film Response 2 Contact: The Yanomomo Summary: The short film Contact: The Yanomamo , highlights the relationship between the Brazilian people and the indigenous people of the rain forest develop. The indigenous people have been living in the rain forest for hundreds of years and generations, everything that they have they forage through the rain forest. For generations, the indigenous people have been completely self-sufficient and independent, but that lifestyle changed when modernized people came into the rain forest looking for gold. The traditional lifestyle has been disrupted through the gold industry, that has many gold minors coming into the rain forest 1. For multiple generations the Yanomamo people have been living in the rain forest of Brazil completely isolated from the rest of the modernized world. The rain forest is a very difficult environment to inhabitant, so it kept off outsiders for many generations. That all changed when the outside world discovered that there was gold to be found in the rain forest. It’s very interesting to find the things that motivate people to pursue something. Everyone is different and has different sources of motivation but one of the things that can unite people greater than other things, is money. As soon as there is money to be made, everything changes. Once there is money to be made, everything else changes. The only thing that matters id making as much money as possible, and everything else that is affected can wait until after all the money is to be made 2. The gold rush brought many different types of people into the rain forest and in contact with the Yanomamo people. For generations the Yanomamo people have been self-isolated and only been exposed to the diseases that they carried amongst each other. That all changed when the gold minors introduced themselves to the Yanomami people. The gold minors of the outside world have been exposed to more people and diseases than the Yanomami people, and the Yanomami people felt the affect of all those diseases. According to the short film, “It is estimated that that one thousand Yanomami have died from malaria and related diseases since the gold mining invasion began in 1987” (Contact: The Yanomamo). Before the gold miners came into the rain forest the Yanomamo people never relied on anyone else besides themselves. The gold miners introduced new diseases to the Yanomamo people, that were not evolutionary equipped to handle. The new people introduced new disease to the Yanomamo people, and the Yanomamo people relied on the outsiders to cure the disease that were introduced to them. 3. Life for the Yanomamo people completely changed when the outside world introduced themselves to their life. The Yanomamo people were complete self-sufficient of other people, completely independent of the outside world. Once the minors introduced themselves to the outside world, the Yanomamo people were exposed to problems that they were not equipped to handle. They needed to rely on the miners and outside world to fix the problems that they introduced into the Yanomamo lifestyle. One quote that I took away from the short film is that they Yanomamo people will never be compelety

independent from the outside world ever again. There will always be a middle ground the the Yanomamo people will need to meet at.

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