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Language
  
English

Country
  
U.S.A.

Magical Death DER Documentary Magical Death Yanomamo

Director
  
Napoleon Chagnon and Tim Asch

Release date
  
1973

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Magical Death is a documentary film by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon that explores the role of the shaman within the Yanomamo culture, as well as the close relationship shamanism shares with politics within their society.

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Chagnon and frequent collaborator Tim Asch allegedly disputed over the content of the film when Asch objected to its graphic depictions of the Yanomami engaging in symbolic death and cannibalism.

The film was awarded the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon.

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