tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post7925412276417884156..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: BBC show on Amazon tribe faked?Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-70378099463617973422011-08-23T21:42:52.232-07:002011-08-23T21:42:52.232-07:00Hmm. "Not a documentary" sounds like a ...Hmm. "Not a documentary" sounds like a euphemism for "The critics are right...we made stuff up. The tribe's beliefs and ceremonies weren't sensational enough so we fabricated new ones."Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-88535725064360353542011-08-23T21:39:46.505-07:002011-08-23T21:39:46.505-07:00Thanks. I changed what the original article said....Thanks. I changed what the original article said.<br /><br />For more on the subject, see:<br /><br />http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/08/controversy-stirs-over-television-series-on-a-peruvian-tribe/<br /><br /><b>Controversy Stirs Over Television Series on a Peruvian Tribe</b><br /><br />Mark Anstice and Olly Steeds, who star in the <i>World’s Lost Tribes</i> series, “want to live out their fantasy of going native,” he said. “They have this shtick that they impose on people.” In an article published in the May issue of Anthropology News, Shepard cites various parts of the shows in which he says the subtitles are unrelated to the Machiguenga speakers’ words.<br /><br />“The sound bites had nothing to do with what was in the subtitles, often,” Shepard said in a telephone interview. As a result, the series “reproduces a completely outdated idea of Indigenous Peoples.”<br /><br />But Lelis Rivera, who heads the Lima-based Center for the Development of Amazonian Indigenous People (Centro para el Desarrollo del Indígena Amazónico, Cedia) said the community members knew the program would be what he called a “gringada”--a “U.S.-style program for U.S. audiences.”<br /><br />“They prepared their script first,” Rivera said. “It was clear from the beginning that it was not a documentary.”Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22894936768448529662011-08-07T13:15:50.744-07:002011-08-07T13:15:50.744-07:00Mark and Olly, actually. Hence the two men in the ...<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowboyBebopAtHisComputer" rel="nofollow">Mark and Olly</a>, actually. Hence the two <i>men</i> in the promo pic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com