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glad to hear it respect the sister-hood myself... what did you mean by racist? the fact that they practice it, or the fact that the anthropologists writing their field notes up, have a bias?

 

I think that the Anthropoligists could have been racist. I am not sure where I read that fact and when the anthropologist wrote it. Even though anthropology is a science and goes back to when people first started discovering other people it still has room for bias. Since I don't know when that discovery was made. Where it was made and by whom it was made I kind of suspect some bias. There are some reports about tribes that were made in the 1880's that are totally bullshit due to a mixture of cultural and linguistic ignorance, the need of the anthropologist to believe that his culture is superior, and the need to make his work sound more exciting to ensure funding.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

:iagree:

 

I saw a documentary about a tribe in Africa that does that to young men. They pulled the forskin out on a tree stump and chopped it off with a machete, or a big knife. 'Whack'

It was a coming of age thing, for reasons i don't remember. All I remember was thinking "F**KING OW!"

 

Iris Bloom

 

If the name of the documentary was "Shocking Africa" it wasn't even a real documentary. There is a subgenre of Italian films called "Mondo" among the most famous is "Mondo Kane" usually they were a mix of stock footage and staged incedents made to be passed off as reality in a sensationalised manor. Usually they had sexual overtones and over the top violence. One that I remember reading about had a group of men from a tribe masturbating into the river before a fishing trip to ensure they would have a good catch. Crocodile attacks were also a common feature in Mondo films.

Even though it isn't in the Mondo subgenre the film "Faces of Death" was very influenced by the Mondo genre. For those of you who were fooled and thought that "Faces of Death" was all real actually it was 60% stock footage from Nature Documentarys and News Broadcasts, and 40% recreations or staged including the Alligator Attack. The DVD edition of the film includes interviews with the film editor and the special effects coordinator.

Peace Out,
Rev J