Guardians of Tradition

While the Yanomami still celebrate ancient marital customs and rituals, life as they know it is being threatened. In Greenland, the custom of hunting seals using dog sleds has almost been replaced by a modern lifestyle. It is unknown though how much the next generation will remember. The Yapese people, residents of Micronesian island Yap, know about the so-called ‘western ways’. Tourism hit the island a while ago.