It may seem surprising, but today there are people on the planet who do not know what a car is, have no idea about electricity. Wild tribes, almost completely retaining the way of life of their ancestors, live in different regions of the Earth. They get their food by fishing and hunting. These people sincerely believe that the gods send them drought and rain, and are suspicious of the representatives of modern civilization.
On the outskirts of civilization
Meetings with primitive peoples living at the stage of the primitive communal system, as a rule, happen by chance, although ethnographers are specifically looking for such tribes. Once, when representatives of the Peruvian Center for Indian Affairs were flying over the Amazon jungle, their plane was fired upon by people armed with bows. There, on the border of Brazil and Peru, several huts were discovered that made up a settlement of savages.
Tribes of peoples in the primitive stage of development still live in Africa, South America, Asia, Australia and Oceania. According to the most rough estimates, there are at least a hundred tribes on the planet that have not yet come into contact with the outside world.
Savages by all means avoid contact with civilization, so that accurate accounting of their numbers is extremely difficult.
A complete study of primitive peoples is also hindered by their immune systems. Today's savages live for a long time in isolation from the centers of culture. Even the most common diseases today, such as the flu, may well be fatal for them. Scientists have found that the body of a typical savage does not contain the antibodies necessary to protect against infections common in the world. The immune system cannot develop an adequate response to infection, which leads to very serious consequences during the transfer of viruses.
The mores of modern savages
Civilization is steadily advancing on the habitat of savages. Forests are being cut down, new territories for economic activities are being developed. Leaving their native lands, savages found new settlements in hard-to-reach places. If, at the same time, settlements of other tribes are nearby, skirmishes and conflicts will certainly arise.
Scientists obtained interesting data by studying the negrito - one of the tribes living in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, located one and a half thousand kilometers from India. This undersized people still practice eating their enemies. Marco Polo also called negro cannibals with dog faces.
Alas, cannibalism is a very common practice among some primitive tribes. The most famous cannibals are the tribes of Borneo and New Guinea. They are distinguished not only by cruelty, but also by promiscuity.
Cannibals still often fall victim to not only the enemies of the tribe, but also hapless tourists.
Anthropologists are little by little able to study the way of life of the backward tribes. Knowledge about the language of primitive peoples, about their social structure, beliefs and creativity helps to recreate a picture of how modern mankind has gone in its development. Each tribe of savages living on the planet today is a real model of a primitive society, combining options for the development of human thinking and the paths of cultural evolution.
