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A Comparison: A Look At Indigenous People

Tourism in the twenty first century is a way of communicating tradition and accumulating capital. People travel around the world to see these traditions and different cultures to see the unique nature of different people. Most of the time, this does not come with out a price. As we will see throughout this paper, indigenous cultures as did many other capitalist societies are jumping on the bandwagon per say to achieve a better life. By better life I mean that with the intrusion of money, indigenous people now can buy food and materials instead of having to spend most of their time during the day to hunt or gather such things. I will show examples of this through an article and different texts that we have read over this semester.
The article is called Creating Huaorani Discourse on Tourism, which is by Scott Braman. Scot Braman is a writer for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. The article is about a group of indigenous people located in the Amazon. These people are just in...

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