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Magical Death
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Introduction
“Magical Death” is just one of anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and ethnographic filmmaker Timothy Asch’s collaborative projects that document the lives and culture of an indigenous Lowland South American society in Venezuela. ... Magical Death, made in 1973, portrays Yanomami shamans causing a trance through taking psycho-active drug “ebene. ... In a review of the movie for American Anthropologist in 1975, Eric Almquist noted that Magical Death “is a testing ground for cultural tolerance, a test which most of us would have to admit failing” and refers to its “visual brutality” (pp. ... ” Even the filmmaking half of the pair, Timothy Asch (who died in 1994) differed with Chagnon and thought both Magical Death and The Ax Fight were especially prejudicial to the Yanomami and were, in many ways, both biased and incomplete.
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Title: Magical Death
Words: 1080
Rating: None
Pages: 4.3
submitted by: Scream
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