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A Man Called "Bee"
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Secondary Title:
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: Studying the Yanomamö
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Filmmaker Name:
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Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon
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Film Length:
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40 min
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Film Year:
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1974
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Duration:
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21-45 min
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Decade:
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1970s
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Series:
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Yanomamö series
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Color:
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color
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Closed-captioned:
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closed-captioned
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Region:
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South America
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Subject:
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Methods and Practices
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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 shaman's cure for his own illness; collecting voluminous genealogies; making tapes, maps, Polaroid photos; and attempting to analyze such patterns as village fission, migration, and aggression.
The commentary touches on the problems of the fieldworker (all the genealogies compiled in the first year were based on false data, and had to be discarded). Between the image and the commentary we also glimpse some of the ambiguities of the anthropologist's role and his relation to the subjects of his study, for example in the tension between mutual exploitation and reciprocity. The film complements Chagnon's book on his fieldwork, Studying the Yanomamö.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
CINE Golden Eagle
Red Ribbon, American Film Festival
Chris Bronze Award, Film Council of Greater Columbus
A Man Called "Bee": Studying the Yanomamö
Film by
Napoleon A. Chagnon
Timothy Asch
Photography by
Timothy Asch
Edited by
Frank Galvin
Script, translation, and additional photography by
Napoleon A. Chagnon
Sound by
Craig Johnson
Associate Editor
Anne Fischel
Animation Art
Peter Kaufmann
Animation Photography
George W. Hughes
Vic Rossi
Final Production
Ben Cantesano
Thanks to the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (I.V.I.C.)
Copyright 1974 by Napoleon A. Chagnon, Timothy Asch, and Documentary
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