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Secrets of the Tribe
Film / 2010

Secrets of the Tribe

Directed by José Padilha
DocumentaryTV movie

★ 6.9/10Audience rating

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

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What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Cast

Robert BorofskyHimself Jesus CardozoHimself Marie Isabel EguillorHerself Brian FergusonHimself Kenneth Good Paul R. Gross Raymond Hames William Irons Barbara JohnstonHerself Ernesto Migliazza Marie-Claude MuellerHerself Frank Salamone
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Leslie Sponsel Patrick Tierney John Tooby Terence Turner Edward O. Wilson Napoleon Chagnon

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