Pipe Dreams Sparknotes

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“Pipe Dreams” Pipe Dreams is one of the films we as a class have watched in accordance with chapter eight in our book Cultural Anthropology. This film takes us on a journey to the Venezuelan rainforest where we meet the Yanomami tribe. As seen in the film, the Yanomami tribe is a group of people who are very remote, and very isolated from the outside world. They are culturally different in almost every way. However, David Goodall, the man who visits the Yanomami tribe, learns their ways of life and what its like to live in the Venezuelan rain forest. David Goodall first visited the Yanomami tribe four years prior to when this film was made. During his first visit, he made many friends and learned the ways of a Yanomami. Goodall even promised …show more content…

However, this time Goodall has a mission to take a child named Tapier back to England, and show him the outside world due to his curiosity. Throughout the first few minutes, we see that Goodall has to make a long trip with several other children from the Yanomami tribe through the Venezuelan rain forest to go get Tapier. This part of the film is very interesting because Goodall talks about how the climates, bugs,and the rainforest are something he is not used too. Because of this, he walks ahead of the others only to realize that they are not behind him. After so many hours of waiting, he starts the trip back to the Yanomami tribe only to meet the boys who were coming back to meet him and travel on. Once David Goodall and the young boys reach the village where Tapier lives, they are welcomed with open arms. It is here in the film that you can see the major cultural differences between our culture and the Yanomami Tribes culture. For instance, in the Yanomami tribe, you see that the man where only loin cloths while the women where something similar, but wear no tops. There are also cultural differences in how they live such as bathing in the river, hunting for their food, and living outside in the

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