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A Man Called "Bee" (1975)

1975 · Feature film · 43 min · dir. Timothy Asch, Napoleon A. Chagnon

  • Documentary
  • Short

Synopsis

This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamö 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…

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Details

Director
Timothy Asch, Napoleon A. Chagnon
Writer
Napoleon A. Chagnon
Released
1974-09-07
Running time
43 minutes

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