| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 min. 3 sec.) ; 230665064 bytes |
| Series |
Tribe ; Series 3, Episode 3 |
| Summary |
Host Bruce Parry sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny, remote tropical outpost in the South Pacific. Due to its extreme remoteness, Anuta is one of the most intact Polynesian cultures, and 250 Anutans inhabit a beautiful island just half a mile wide. They are an ocean-going culture, still capable of navigating great distances by the stars. The men fish with hand lines for sharks and marlin from traditional out-rigger canoes. They dive on the reef for lobster and collect shellfish at low tide. There are two churches on the island and some inhabitants are very devout. The women cultivate every available patch of land with taro, manioc and bananas. To the Western eye it looks like paradise - white beaches, turquoise sea, swaying palm trees. But what is life like for the people who inhabit paradise? Bruce spent six weeks finding out. The sea is bountiful, but rough weather often prevents locals from fishing. There's no medical help available, since the local chief opposes a clinic, and no way to communicate with other islands, and harvesting manioc proves to be hard work. But still Bruce is loath lo leave. (From the UK, in English and Anuta, English subtitles) (Documentary Series) G CC WS |
| Event |
Broadcast 2010-06-16 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
| Subject |
Fishing -- Technique.
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Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs.
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Island people.
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Men -- Travel.
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Tribes -- Social conditions.
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Melanesia -- Anuta Island.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Parry, Bruce, host
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Smith, James, director
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