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Article: Voyeurismo.(Travel)(The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall)(Book review)
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- Quadrant
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- May 1, 2007
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You've SPENT 10,000 YEARS getting there. It's not pretty but it's yours--the swamp, the forest, the tree house where you live. Bigger and stronger tribes drove you down from the better land higher up the slopes, so you fell back on a godforsaken place full of reptiles, insects and malarial encephalitis. West Papua's rainforests are hell; but at least you feel safe and alone.
Then Zuruck in die Steinzeit comes along--a party of Germans looking for tourism's outer edge. They have their cameras ready and this is what they've come for (Zuruck in die Steinzeit means "Back to the Stone Age")--stark naked little guys with bows and arrows and weird penis sheaths and ...