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A Man Called "Bee" (1974)
Directed by Napoleon Chagnon, Timothy Asch
Documentary · 44m
One of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects - a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamo for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in various roles as "fieldworker": entering a village armed with arrows and adorned with feathers; sharing coffee with the shaman Dedeheiwa who recounts the myth of fire; dispensing eyedrops to a baby and accepting in turn a shaman's cure for his own illness; collecting voluminous genealogies; making tapes, maps, Polaroid photos; and attempting to analyze such patterns as Yąnomamö village fission, migration, and aggression.
Crew
- Director
- Napoleon Chagnon, Timothy Asch
Details
- Release date
- 1974-09-07
- Runtime
- 44m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Brazil, United States of America