Why Uncontacted Tribes Choose to Remain Isolated and Preserve Their Unique Cultures
About 10,000 individuals on Earth still reside as members of what anthropologists refer to as “uncontacted tribes.” These groups of hunter-gatherers live in near-total seclusion from the outside world, many of them deep in the Amazon Basin. However, none are more isolated than the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman archipelago, located far …
