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Mending Ways: The Canela Indians Of Brazil
Film Response on Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil
The film that I choose to do a respond on is the film “Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil.” In the film, the anthropologist, Dr. William H. Crocker from the Smithsonian Institute of Anthropologist studied the Canela tribe for over 30 years. The film is divided into two parts which is the first is about how he studied the tribe and its culture. A few years later, merely about 20 years, he studied the change in the community which lead to the second part of the film. What interest him in studying the tribe is not just their unique way of life, he is also keen to know their extraordinary bonding and conflict resolution skill among people in the community which is commonly known

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