According to scientists, there are currently about a hundred wild tribes in the world in South America, Africa and Asia. Their exact number cannot be named due to the desire of many communities of savages to avoid any contact with civilization at any cost. Most of these tribes live completely apart and strive at all costs to avoid any contact with modern civilization.
In the modern world on Earth every year there are fewer and fewer secluded places where civilization has not gone before. It comes everywhere. And wild tribes are often forced to change the places of their settlements. Those of them that make contact with the civilized world are gradually disappearing. They, libor dissolve in modern society, or simply die out.
The thing is, centuries of life in complete isolation did not allow the immune system of these people to develop properly. Their bodies haven’t learned to make antibodies that can fight off the most common infections. A banal cold can be fatal for them.
Nevertheless, anthropological scientists continue to study, whenever possible, wild tribes. After all, each of them is nothing more than a model of the ancient world. A kind of possible variant of human evolution.
Piahu Indians
The way of life of wild tribes, in general, fits into the framework of our idea of primitive people. They live mainly in polygamous families. They are engaged in hunting and gathering. But the way of thinking and language of some of them is capable of striking any civilized imagination.
Once, the famous anthropologist, linguist and preacher Daniel Everett went to the Amazonian Piraha tribe for scientific and missionary purposes. First of all, he was struck by the language of the Indians. It had only three vowels and seven consonants. They had no idea of the singular or plural. There were no numerals in their language at all. And why should they, if Piraha did not even have a clue of what is more and less. And it turned out that the people of this tribe live outside of all time. Such concepts as the present, past and future were alien to him. In general, the polyglot Everett had a very difficult time learning the Pirach language.
Everett's missionary mission was in for a big embarrassment. First, the savages asked the preacher if he was personally acquainted with Jesus. And when they found out that he was not, they immediately lost all interest in the Gospel. And when Everett told them that God himself created man, they completely fell into complete bewilderment. This bewilderment could be translated something like this: “What are you? You don't know how people are made so stupid?"
As a result, after visiting this tribe, the unfortunate Everett, according to him, almost turned from a convinced Christian into a complete atheist.
Cannibalism still exists
Some wild tribes also have cannibalism. Now cannibalism among savages is not so common as it was about a hundred years ago, but still cases of eating their own kind are not yet rare. The savages of the island of Borneo are most successful in this matter, they are famous for their cruelty and promiscuity. These cannibals gladly eat enemies and tourists alike. Although the last outbreak of kakkibalism dates back to the beginning of the last century. now this phenomenon among wild tribes is episodic.
But in general, according to scientists, the fate of the wild tribes on Earth has already been decided. In just a few decades, they will completely disappear.
