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I don’t have a desire to keep the tribespeople of the Amazon or the Mongolian steppes in their prelapsarian state. They should fall right into the attention economy like the rest of us, writes Aspasia Karras
09 June 2024 – 00:00
The Marubo people, a village of 2,000 souls, live deep in the Amazon jungle on the banks of the Itui River. It takes an 80km hike on foot to find them. ..
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