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Secrets of the Tribe

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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.

Date: 01/22/2010

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Robert Borofsky, Jesus Cardozo, Marie Isabel Eguillor, Brian Ferguson, Kenneth Good, Paul R. Gross, Raymond Hames, William Irons, Barbara Johnston, Ernesto Migliazza, Marie-Claude Mueller, Frank Salamone, Leslie Sponsel, Patrick Tierney, John Tooby, Terence Turner, Edward O. Wilson, Kenneth Good, Paul R. Gross, Raymond Hames, William Irons, Ernesto Migliazza, Frank Salamone, Patrick Tierney, John Tooby, Terence Turner, Edward O. Wilson, Leslie Sponsel, Napoleon Chagnon

Robert Borofsky

Jesus Cardozo

Marie Isabel Eguillor

Brian Ferguson

Kenneth Good

Paul R. Gross

Raymond Hames

William Irons

Barbara Johnston