Scientists estimate that there are currently around a hundred wild tribes in South America, Africa and Asia. It is impossible to name their exact number due to the desire of many communities of savages to avoid any contact with civilization at all costs. Most of these tribes live completely separate and strive to avoid any contact with modern civilization at all costs.
In the modern world on Earth, every year there are fewer and fewer secluded places where the leg of civilization has not set foot. She is advancing everywhere. And wild tribes are often forced to change places of their settlements. Those of them that come into contact with the civilized world are gradually disappearing. They, libor dissolve in modern society, or simply die out.
The thing is, centuries-old life in complete isolation did not allow the immune system of these people to develop properly. Their body has not learned how to produce antibodies that can withstand the most common infections. A common cold can be fatal for them.
However, anthropologists continue to study wild tribes as far as possible. After all, each of them is nothing but a model of the ancient world. A kind, possible version of human evolution.
Piahu Indians
The way of life of wild tribes generally fits into the framework of our conception of primitive people. They live mainly in polygamous families. Engaged in hunting and gathering. But the way of thinking and the language of some of them is able to impress any civilized imagination.
Once, the famous anthropologist, linguist and preacher Daniel Everett went to the Amazonian tribe of Pirah 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 about the singular and plural. In their language there were no numbers at all. And why do they need them, if Pirah did not even have a clue about what is more and less. And it turned out that the people of this tribe live beyond all time. Such concepts as the present, past and future were alien to him. In general, the polyglot Everett with the study of the language of Pirach had a very difficult time.
Everett’s missionary mission was in for a great embarrassment. First, savages inquired from the preacher whether he personally knew Jesus. And when they learned that he was not, they immediately lost all interest in the gospel. And when Everett informed them that God himself created man, they completely fell into complete bewilderment. This perplexity could be translated something like this: "What are you? You don’t know such a stupid person how people are made?"
As a result, after visiting this tribe, the unfortunate Everett, according to him, from a convinced Christian almost turned into a complete atheist.
