In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon. The Matsigenka hunt for monkeys and parrots, grow yucca and bananas, and build houses that they roof with . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert