Secrets of the Tribe
A behind-the-scenes look at a scientific community torn apart by infighting.
2010 pt 98 minutes
Rating: 6.8
Plot
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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Cast
Robert Borofsky
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Jesus Cardozo
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Marie Isabel Eguillor
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Brian Ferguson
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Kenneth Good
Paul R. Gross
Raymond Hames
William Irons
Barbara Johnston
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Ernesto Migliazza
Marie-Claude Mueller
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Frank Salamone
Leslie Sponsel
Patrick Tierney
John Tooby
Terence Turner
Edward O. Wilson
Kenneth Good
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Paul R. Gross
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Raymond Hames
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William Irons
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Ernesto Migliazza
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Frank Salamone
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Patrick Tierney
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John Tooby
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Terence Turner
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Edward O. Wilson
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Leslie Sponsel
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Napoleon Chagnon
