A Man Called "Bee" (1974)

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.

Released Sept. 7, 1974 44 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.ethnology, imdb.anthropology, imdb.ethnography, imdb.fieldwork, imdb.culture, imdb.participant-observation + 4 more, imdb.brazil, imdb.venezuela, imdb.anthropologist, imdb.amazon-river