Secrets of the Tribe
Secrets of the Tribe

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The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting.... (Full plot summary below)

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Jesus Cardozo
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Brian Ferguson
Kenneth Good
Paul R. Gross

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The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting.

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User Review - 8/10 by Roy SAmazing story of academic ethics, vanity, personality clashes, and sexual perversion. Someone needs to study the anthropologists, and probably prosecute the pedophiles.
User Review - 8/10 by Jenny SVery interesting look at anthropology and the controversies of "affecting" the tribes they are "studying". It is still a western, male dominated idea that gives the self permission to go and "live among the people" and trade goods for secrets. See and judge for yourself.
User Review - 8/10 by George DA science geek smack down / rumble royale. Of course all of the punches that are thrown are verbal, but the words are eyeball scratching / gouging intense. An academics version of an evening soap opera ala "Dallas" with Napoleon Chagnon in the J.R. Ewing role and Jacques Lizot playing the dad from the movie "Happiness". A fun role reversal where the observers of other cultures get observed themselves.
User Review - 8/10 by Laura MVery interesting, very well made. My only gripe is that the most serious accusations are maybe left hanging in the air a bit.
User Review - 8/10 by Kristina MBRILLIANT. Only 4stars because it was roughly made, and sometimes dragged a little bit with talking heads, but this flips anthropology/ethnography on its head as the tribe at study here is not the Yanomami, but the study of culture itself, ethics, and science. This film just keeps unraveling. If you thought there were some issues and concerns about the ethics of science and anthropology, you will be shocked. At each turn, you don't think it could get any worse, and somehow it does. Confusing, relentless, and ultimately there is no safe territory at all in this film. You are left with nowhere to hide, perhaps no ethics at all even, no morals. Perhaps the man left with the only shard of ethics by the end is still arguably a pedophile who marries a grossly underaged Yanomami girl. This is a glimpse, a big homocidal, perverted, child-molesting, genocidal, atomic energy agency funded glimpse at a very very nasty side of science and cultural studies.
User Review - 8/10 by Sam FThe movie discusses the anthropological study of the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon, but the "tribe" of the title is anthropologists themselves. Was Napoleon Chagnon a lone voice for the use of the scientific method in anthropological research, or was he yet another ideologue? Did the vaccination studies conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission mitigate an inevitable epidemic, or did they commit ethical violations bordering on the genocidal? Did other anthropologists turn a blind eye to Jacques Lizot's sexual abuse of boys in his care, or were they unaware of his abuse of power? Whose moral standards should an anthropologist be judged by, and what sort of critical distance does participant-observation require? Ultimately, the movie presents more questions than answers, and paints a rather bleak (if fascinating) picture of anthropology in general.
User Review - 6/10 by Grant SThis documentary examines the extent to which anthropological research is harmful to uncontacted tribes - too talky at times, though.

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