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Secrets of the Tribe
Segredos da Tribo
2010 · Film · documentary · 98 min
Directed by José Padilha
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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I read David's father Kenneth Good's book Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami, which was amazing. He appears in José Padilha's fascinating documentary about anthropologists Secrets of the Tribe, kind of an exposé of dirty secrets of anthropology, and a scandal about controversial allegations in the book Darkness in El Dorado. I'd read about Chagnon and the Yanomami, but not the grubby shambolic reality.
Here's an interesting documentary about the whole affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_the_Tribe