Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

[from 2nd cover:]
"The most vulnerable people in the world are those who lack immunity to the diseases of civilisátion and whose vast forests are no longer large enough to provide a hiding place from stronger and more acquisitive cultures which are exploring and exploiting their depths. They are the forest dwelling tribes of Latin America, most of whom dwell in the Amazon basin, some of whom have not yet been seen by the white man.

On 8 August 1972, a mission sponsored by the Aborigines Protection Society, and aided by the Brazilian Government, began a two-month investigation into the situation of these Indian tribes. For the first time since the Society was founded in 1837 it accepted governmental aid, judging the case to be exceptiona1 in its urgency, in the need for international study of its findings and in the fact that without the co-operation of the Brazilian Government and, in particular, its air force, it would have been financially and physically impossible to make an adequate inquiry.

It is to be hoped that the report contained in thís volume will help to spread within Latin America and far beyond an urgent and active concern for the survival and well-being of all aboriginal peoples.

The leader of the mission was Dr Edwin Brooks, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Liverpool, Member of ParliameAt for Bebington 1966-70, and first President of the Conservation Society, 1967. The other members of the
mission were René Fuerst, ethnologist, who spent nine years doing research on the Amerindians of Brazil, 1961-69; John Hemming, who spent most of 1971 in Brazil on a Miranda Scholarship visiting 22 tribes in preparation for a history of relations with Brazilian Indians, and was a member of the Iriri Expedition in 1961; and Francis Huxley, social anthropologist, whose interest in Brazil dates from 1950."

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