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Tawai: A Voice from the Forest( 2017)

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Overview

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.

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      Bruce Parry

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      Jerome Lewis

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      Iain Mcgilchrist

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      Ingrid Lewis

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    A review by tomiscool

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    Written by tomiscool on Wed Oct 04 2017
    There's a lot to cover here. Bruce Parry's latest foray into tribal exploration goes further than the usual appeals to civilisation's lost sense of unity with the world. Don't get me wrong, it's there, making up the titular theme (Tawai literally translates to a relationship with nature), and categorising, for the first half or so, the film's primary message. But thereafter Parry takes an interesting turn, focusing on the psychological and sociological aspects of certain tribes in Borneo and the Amazon. Parry's thesis is that after the invention of agriculture sometime in the neolithic, and the...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • philosophy
    • civilization
    • psychology
    • tribe
    • borneo
    • explorer
    • indigenous community
    • nomad
    • kumbh mela
    • indigenous peoples
    • ganges
    • hunter-gatherer