Love for the Amazon.

This'll be a short post as my previous one was rather long... I thought that now was a perfect time to explain a bit more about why I'm interested in anthropology. I admit that I am not an expert on the course (shock, horror) but I decided that if I just wrote what I thought was relevant then gradually I will learn and expand my knowledge on the subject.

I am a rather stereotypical starter of the subject, meaning that I'm mainly interested in the minority groups throughout the world. The place that I would most like to visit is South America or more specifically the Amazon. To me, the Amazon seems like the ultimate destination. There is such a wide variety of activity occurring the rainforest some good (conservation) some bad (deforestation). I watched the Bruce Parry series on the Amazon and my parents rather lovingly bought me the book, I poured over the pages annoying my whole family by making them look at every single picture and quoting what it said. This book was really the start of my education of tribes. From that moment on I have dreamt of going to the Amazon and seeing the tribes personally. Seeing tribes that live without technology and have their own system without other countries getting involved seemed impossible (I was a lot younger when the series was aired! I'm not as ignorant now...). When you're a British girl growing up you learn about the countries and what the world look likes, but to some of the Amazonians they didn't know what life was like outside their part of the forest. By no way am I condemning them or criticising them as if we were asked questions about their general knowledge we would fail miserably.

There are two parts of me. The first feels like we should educate them and teach them about technology while the other thinks we should leave them and their culture be. If everyone became the same, how boring would geography be?

So, the Amazon: the start of my tribal interest.

I know this post may seem juvenile to some, but I thought that it would be good to see where it all started.