BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Yanomami people, who hail from the Amazon, live a semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the jungle. They have been living like this for thousands of years. According to iflscience, the tribe was first contacted in the 1960s,…
When a loved one dies, this Indonesian tribe amputates a woman’s finger
BY: TED BARNABY Though death is integral it is also crippling, and often the death of a loved one leaves us with an aggressive emotional void, leaving us nearly physically incapacitated. Peoples of certain cultures believe that this physical representation…