ANTH 100A Lecture 5: Anthro 5
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Going down to the amazon to search for druuuugzzz. 90% of the amazon plants have yet to be studied. 1956 missionaries speared to death; natives never seen anything two dimensional and believed to be a sign of the devil. There was no word for god or prayer; instead, she asked the villagers to wake up early in dawn and because there was a lack of word for prayer, it was essentially translated to sleep instead. Worami people: entirely different world. ex. woman breast feeding a monkey. These people had no evidence of any disease or sickness; no cold, malaria, chicken pox, smallpox, etc. However, they suffered from fungal infections, hepatitis, snake bites, (94% of men have been bitten at least once). We realized that the native amazons have only discovered 35% of the plants which were mostly used for the diseases that were sought out and needed.
