Deep in the Amazon, isolated tribes like the Masaco are seeing a surprise population boom. Discover how they use ancient ...

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THE FANTASY VERSION of the Amazon that often seduces travelers—of a pristine, impenetrably vast jungle populated by jaguars, sloths and isolated pockets of indigenous tribes—does not prepare one for ...