A Man called Bee: studying the Yanomamö
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Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources c2004
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Item Description:Filmed in 1971 and originally issued as a motion picture in 1974
Paralleltitel: Studying the Yanomamö
Photography: Timothy Asch ; editing: Frank Galvin ; script, translation and additional photography: Napoleon A. Chagnon
Follows anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon as he collects anthropological field data among the Yanoama Indians of southern Venezuela. Includes information about the Yanomamo, such as their system of kinship ties, their religious beliefs and ceremonies, and the growth and fissioning of their widely scattered villages. Chagnon's commentary touches on the problems of the fieldworker, and the ambiguities of the anthropologist's role and his relation to the subjects of his study
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