A Man Called Bee (1974)

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 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 shamans 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