The minimalist dress code of the Amazon's Awa people

Gerald · 03-06-11, 08:44 AM

It may be better to be underdressed than overdressed when hunting with the Awa, one of the Amazon's last nomadic people.

The hunting expedition was arranged for early afternoon.

I had not packed very well for this trip so I was wearing my heavy hiking boots, a pair of jeans and a flower-patterned short-sleeved shirt. Not great jungle-wear I know, but the best I had to hand.The village was just a couple of minutes' stroll from where we had slung our hammocks and even that short walk was enough to work up a heavy sweat. But it was only once I had entered the village that I realised just how overdressed I was. We were filming with an Amazonian tribe called the Awa. We were here to show how the global demand for Brazil's resources, in particular from China, is driving deforestation. Until very recently the Awa people were completely isolated. Indeed, some of the villagers here were contacted for the first time just 12 years ago, yet now their land is the most degraded of any indigenous tribe in the Amazon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes...nt/9413908.stm

Note: Saturday, 5 March 2011

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	The minimalist dress code of the Amazon's Awa people It may be better to be underdressed than overdressed when hunting with the Awa, one of the Amazon's last nomadic people. The hunting expedition was arranged for early afternoon. I had not packed very well for this trip so I was wearing my heavy hiking boots, a pair of jeans and a flower-patterned short-sleeved shirt. Not great jungle-wear I know, but the best I had to hand.The village was just a couple of minutes' stroll from where we had slung our hammocks and even that short walk was enough to work up a heavy sweat. But it was only once I had entered the village that I realised just how overdressed I was. We were filming with an Amazonian tribe called the Awa. We were here to show how the global demand for Brazil's resources, in particular from China, is driving deforestation. Until very recently the Awa people were completely isolated. Indeed, some of the villagers here were contacted for the first time just 12 years ago, yet now their land is the most degraded of any indigenous tribe in the Amazon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes...nt/9413908.stm Note: Saturday, 5 March 2011 __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie