Secrets of the Tribe
2010
6.9 (10)
1 hr 38 min
Portuguese
A behind-the-scenes look at a scientific community torn apart by infighting.
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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- Status
- Released
- Production
- YLE, DR, Screen East, Impact Partners
Keywords
- exploitation
- tribe
- amazon rainforest
- anthropology
- morality
- sociology
- rainforest
- professional ethics
- ethics
- ethnocentrism
- desperate
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Top Cast
Robert Borofsky as Himself
Jesus Cardozo as Himself
Marie Isabel Eguillor as Herself
Brian Ferguson as Himself
Kenneth Good as
Top Crew
José Padilha · Director, Editor
João Nabuco · Composer
Reynaldo Zangrandi · Cinematographer
Lula Carvalho · Cinematographer
Bernardo Pimenta · Editor
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