A final problem with our understanding of these relationships is that they
are of fairly recent vintage (a few centuries at most). We thus have little to say
about the presence around negritos of not just their stereotypical dominant Other
(usually but not exclusively from settler groups) but also other farming or mixed
farming-foraging indigenous groups.11 The latter can be just as significant to social
reproduction. The two examples that follow, one historical and one contemporary,
help to illustrate the point.