A Man Called Bee: Studying the Yanomamo (1974), by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon, is a classic ethnographic film done by anthropologists. The narration is didactic; the civilized-man-goes-native approach is outdated; the research in general is suspect. Ethnography has changed in the past 35 years, so much so that the film documents a discredited methodology even more than its apparent subject: kinship, myths, and customs of the Yanomamo.
