Dreams from the forest /
There are only 150 Mehinacu left in the world. They live in one village in the middle of the Xingu Reserve in Central Brazil. Forty years ago they were first contacted by the 'Whiteman' in the guise of Leonardo Villas-Boas, the celebrated anthropologist who established the Indian Reserve f...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC),
1993
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online.
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| Summary: | There are only 150 Mehinacu left in the world. They live in one village in the middle of the Xingu Reserve in Central Brazil. Forty years ago they were first contacted by the 'Whiteman' in the guise of Leonardo Villas-Boas, the celebrated anthropologist who established the Indian Reserve for them and neighbouring tribes. Their culture has been protected but their psychological well-being is less clear. |
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| Item Description: | Previously released on DVD. Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (47 min.). |
| Production Credits: | Producer, John-Paul Davidson ; anthropologist and co-producer, Thomas A. Gregor ; music, Steve Marshall ; narrator, Roger Mills ; photographer, Wayne Derrick ; editors, Leila Farag, Masahiro Hirakubo. |
| Language: | English. |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Filmed in Brazil. |
