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Secrets of the Tribe (2010)

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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Grant S 13 Oct 2011

This documentary examines the extent to which anthropological research is harmful to uncontacted tribes - too talky at times, though.

George D 24 Mar 2011

A 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.

Kristina M 07 Jun 2010

BRILLIANT. 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.

Sam F 01 May 2010

The 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.

Roy S 07 Apr 2011

Amazing story of academic ethics, vanity, personality clashes, and sexual perversion. Someone needs to study the anthropologists, and probably prosecute the pedophiles.