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3) Bancoco
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A New Yorker, Brad King, travels through the jungles of Panama to find the indigenous people he photographed and befriended twenty years ago. It becomes apparent that photos have the power to breach time and cultural divides in a beautiful way.
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Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands on Earth, and a riddle. What happened to the Rapa Nui who populated this ancient Eden? They carved giant statues, the moai, and created a culture of cooperation. Then something failed. Modern explorers investigate labyrinthine cave systems, finding grim clues. Now another sad fate may be in the island's future - total disappearance.
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This episode tracks the ethical, ecological, and social evolution of our symbiotic relationship with animals starting in the Neolithic period right up to the Middle Ages. By following the long journey of this complex and changing relationship, we document how animals were tamed, optimized, trivialized, and humanized.
6) Tribe: Penan
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Bruce Parry treks into the jungles of Sarawak, Borneo in search of the last nomadic Penan, a tribe of 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.
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The Sambia of Papua New Guinea are one of the most remote peoples in the world, a tribe of fighters untouched by the values of Western Society. Sambians believe that men and women are profoundly different. Girls are tough and naturally turn in to women. Boys, however, need active help to turn in to men, so at the age of seven they are taken away from their mothers and initiated in to the secret world of men...
10) Dead Men's Tales
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This episode of Scientific American Frontiers follows archaeologists as they pore over human and other remains at sites around the world. A skeleton found at Virginia's Jamestown colony reveals the hardships settlers faced. In Texas, the question is whether an outlaw supposedly hanged in 1878 was, in fact, executed. A South African archaeologist unearths 16th-century royalty. And in Egypt the workers who built the pyramids are unearthed.
15) Tribe: Akie
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Bruce Parry meets the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers remaining on the African savannah. They are a cheerful tribe, but their way of life is under threat from big-game hunters in a diminishing territory. During his stay,Parry is forced to face one of his biggest fears to help gather wild honey.
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Hernin and Marcellin Abong are two Vanuatu twin brothers with very different backgrounds: one has become the "Very Great Chief" of his tribe, while the other is an ethno-archaeologist. Their culture is slowly but surely disappearing forever. To keep a record of it, they both delve into the most remote parts of Vanuatu in search of the customs and rites of their people. On foot and by canoe, their journey takes them to grandiose and isolated territories,...
18) Tribe: Nenets
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In the frozen tundra of northern Siberia live the Nenet reindeer herders. Bruce Parry spends a month with a Nenet brigade as they carry out their winter migration, travelling hundreds of miles as temperatures drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Their warmth and hospitality could not be more different from the extreme cold of their harsh surroundings.
19) Tribe: Matis
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Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western diseases. They are determined to preserve their culture andParry endures some excruciatingly painful rituals as they teach him how to be a good hunter.
20) Tashirabgais
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This program by anthropologist Barrie Machin features Tashirabgais, an important member of the Ladakh Ecocentre and interpreter of Buddhism and the environment.
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