Having been to that part of the world in 2005, I read with interest stories about the “uncontacted” tribes in the Amazon (of course, they are not “uncontacted” at all, having got close enough to take pictures and be shot at with arrows, as the story relates, but that’s beside the point). 

I’m not really sure whether having further contact with them is a good thing or not, but when I visited a village that was roughly eight hours by powerboat from the nearest town in the state of Para, here’s what I found. Ostensibly, the satellite dish is there to permit the government representative living in the village to communicate with the government offices far away. What the village does every night, however, is gather in the building where a single television exists and watch TV.