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201098 minGdocumentary

6.9/ 10(10 ratings)• TMDB

Secrets of the Tribe

201098 minGdocumentary

6.9/ 10(10 ratings)• TMDB

Western anthropologists studying the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon have caused significant disruption and ignited conflict within the anthropology community.

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Western anthropologists studying the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon have caused significant disruption and ignited conflict within the anthropology community.

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José Padilha

José Padilhadirector

Robert Borofskycast

Jesus Cardozocast

Marie Isabel Eguillorcast

Brian Ferguson

Brian Fergusoncast

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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.

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