Tribe, Series 1-3

Synopsis
Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings of Western existence to learn to hunt, become a warrior, cook and eat using traditional methods alone.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Year of release
2007
Year of production
2005-2007
Notes
Further information about the programmes and their making is available on the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/index.shtml
Subjects
Anthropology
Keywords
anthropology; ethnography; native peoples; Dassanech; Matis; Nenets; Anuta; Akie; Layap; Penan

Credits

Contributor
Bruce Parry

Distribution Formats

Type
DVD
Format
Region 2 PAL
Price
£34.99
Availability
Sale
Duration/Size
900 minutes
Year
2007

Sections

Title
Sanema
Synopsis
The Sanema are a branch of the Yanomami tribe who live in the tropical rain forest on both sides of the Venezuelan and Brazilian border, on the watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers. Until recently they were nomadic hunters, and shifting cultivators, living off what they caught in the forest. But in recent times most of them have settled in villages. This decision to stay in one place is undermining their most fundamental traditions.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Darhad
Synopsis
The Mongolian nomads of the Darhad valley are some of the most self-sufficient people in the world. Across the steppes and mountains of the Darhad Valley, they move huge herds of sheep, goats, cattle, yaks and camels, relying on their tough little horses. It’s a harsh and spectacular place, and a gruelling life.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Babongo
Synopsis
The Babongo of Gabon used to be known, derogatively, as pygmies. They’re still treated as second-class citizens by their neighbours. But their expertise and knowledge of the forests is unique and their use of Iboga, a powerful hallucinogenic which lies at the heart of Babongo culture, makes them famous throughout Gabon.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Kombai
Synopsis
The dense forests of Papua are a rich and complicated mosaic of different tribal groups. Far from the coast, at the foothills of the highlands, from an aircraft the land seems like mile after mile of empty barren swamp. But this is where the Kombai have stayed hidden from the outside world for generations, pursuing their ancient way of life as hunter-gatherers.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Suri
Synopsis
In the plains of south-western Ethiopia where the Suri herd their highly-prized cattle, competition for land is always fierce and armed raids an everyday reality.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Adi
Synopsis
The Adi are justly proud of their history. The Himalayan hill tribe’s reputation as fierce warriors, and the inhospitable terrain in which they live, have ensured the survival of Adi culture for centuries. But change is coming fast as technology, ideas - and beliefs - from outside start to take hold in even the most remote Adi villages.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Nyangatom
Synopsis
The Nyangatom are some of the most feared warriors in the Omo Valley, locked in bloody feuds with the tribes that surround them.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Hamar
Synopsis
The Hamar live among the bush covered hills on the eastern side of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. They are a tribe with unique rituals such as a cattle-leaping ceremony that men go through in order to reach adulthood, whereupon young Hamar women get whipped to prove their love for their kinsmen.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Dassanech
Synopsis
This is the most southerly of the tribes who live in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley. In this harsh world, there are times when members of the Dassanech tribe lose their cattle and goats, and with them their livelihood. The way they deal with this, by switching to an alternative means of support by the shores of Lake Turkana, is an example of how life has to adapt in fundamental ways in the face of some of the most inhospitable conditions in the world.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Matis
Synopsis
The Matis are classic slash and burn agriculturalists and expert hunters. They live in the vast Vale do Javari Indigenous Park, an area of 32,000 sq miles (the size of Austria) in the far west of Brazil. Despite all that’s happened to them since first contact in the mid-1970s, the Matis remain a vibrant cultural force. They are a remarkably playful people for whom the longhouse remains a cultural focus and the skills needed to use a 3.5 metre-long blowpipe are deeply respected.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Nenets
Synopsis
The Nenets people of the Siberian arctic are the guardians of a style of reindeer herding that is the last of its kind. Through a yearly migration of over a thousand kilometres, these people move gigantic herds of reindeer from summer pastures in the north to winter pastures just south of the Arctic Circle. No-one knows for certain whether it is the reindeer that lead the people or vice versa. What is certain is that fewer places on earth are home to a more challenging environment, an environment where temperatures plummet to -50C and where crossing the worlds fifth largest river as it deep-freezes is just part of the routine. Such a difficult environment unites the people physically through a regimented work ethic, but far more importantly, the Yamal-Nenets are unified by a robust and vibrant culture. It is a culture that has had to survive a turbulent history, from early Russian colonisation, to Stalin’s terror regime, to the modern day dangers of a rapacious oil and gas development programme.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Anuta
Synopsis
The island of Anuta is one of almost a thousand islands that make up the Melanesian nation of the Solomon Islands. Together, this group of islands cover a land mass of 28,400 square kilometres. Anuta island has been known as ‘te fatu sekeseke’, the slippery stone, due to it being such a small spot in the ocean - just half a mile in diameter and 70 miles from the next populated island, so hard to find and so easily ‘slid’ away from. Political and geographical circumstances have isolated Anuta and its Polynesian population throughout history.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Akie
Synopsis
Bruce Parry lives with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. Bruce is forced to face his biggest fear and put his hands into a bees’ nest to gather wild honey.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Layap
Synopsis
Bruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, to live with the isolated Layap people. They are devout Buddhists and yak herders, cut off from the outside world for half the year by deep snow. This is a spiritual journey for Bruce as he tries to understand the life of a devout Buddhist.
Duration
60 mins

Title
Penan
Synopsis
Bruce Parry treks into the jungles of Sarawak, Borneo in search of the last normadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose forest home is in the process of being cut down around them. Their traditional way of life is about to disappear forever.
Duration
60 mins

Production Company

Name

BBC Television

Distributor

Name

2 Entertain Video

Email
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Web
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Phone
020 7612 3000
Fax
020 7612 3003
Address
BBC Worldwide
33 Foley Street
London
W1W 7TL
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