Film
A Man Called "Bee"
1974 · 44m · Documentary
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Overview
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
- Timothy AschDirector
- Napoleon ChagnonDirector
Media
Details
- Release date
- September 7, 1974
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 44m
- Genres
- Documentary
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