Fresh off his presentation at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia titled "Materially Poor, Morally Rich," Professor Alberto Gomes speaks to us about what we can in our "modern" way of life learn from the Orang Asli, not falling into the trap of an anthropologist who idealizes the noble savage, as well as his first encounter with Malaysia's first peoples, a subject he dedicated his career to understanding.

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Tags:  the bigger picture,  live and learn,  Orang Asli,  Orang Asal,  First Peoples,  Indigenous People,  Native People,  Native Land Rights