Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) mentioned The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness by Edmund Carpenter 1 times

She quotes the anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, who in the '60s did a study of the Biami tribe in New Guinea where he showed them mirror, video, and photographic images of themselves for the first time, and described the results: "They were paralyzed: after their first startled "response, covering their mouths and ducking "their heads, they stood transfixed, "staring at their images, "only their stomach muscles betraying great tension." So basically, they cringed at themselves.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)