Tribe with Bruce Parry

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Is anyone watching this?

Been on the last couple of week. It's really interesting.

Shocking watching the children be really scared of him because it's the first time they've seen a white person as well

I found it crap compared to his previous series. Very little depth, everything skimmed over. Couldn’t stand that he thought that 11 year old girl truly wanted her teeth knocking out.

Yes I loved the original and the renewed version is great too. Bruce is a fantastic presenter

I'd not seen any previous ones or heard of him so nothing to compare it to

She was brought up in a culture where men and women do that. He’s open minded which is what I like about him

Could have done without seeing and hearing all the being sick in episode one though!

Watching that teeth sharpening was awful

really awful

So are little girls that have FGM committed against them. Doesn’t mean the girls actually want it to happen.

I’ve seen the new ones, and had a rewatch of the old ones on iplayer. I did find the animal killing quite a tough watch on these new ones, as well as the teeth.

I like Bruce Parry a lot, he completely absorbs himself in the culture and enjoys their company. The subtitles always make me laugh though when the people are speaking in their own language about him. There was one episode where he was raving about the ‘beautiful roof’ in a tribal house, and the chief glumly commented ‘white people always say that. Look at it, it’s got holes in it.’ Or generally slating him for being unfit, useless with a bow and arrow etc.

Someone spitting rice water over someone else to help them heal

Quite astounded at the almost blase way he eats the unusual things to eat when he's with these people

The sacrifice of the buffalo was not nice to watch

And then 3 more

It's been almost 20yrs since he was last on, I must catch up with this. I don't think he's afraid of anything.

Wow marapu people can't marry at all if they don't have a dowry and three quarters of the men are away earning money for a dowry

He's a former Royal Marines Commando officer. Tough. There's no way your average couch potato Brit could get stuck in the way he does, I don't think, with the physical work, food, sleeping conditions, etc. He does have a lovely humble attitude. The previous series all those years ago felt much more ground-breaking to me. This one feels like going over old ground for the sake of it. Eg. he's done the ayauasca ceremony (and all the puking) before.

I watched Will Millard my year with the tribe and it sort of made me suspicious of the Bruce Parry documentary because it seems a lot of it is set up for the cameras

Really?

Yes, I haven’t seen this series yet, but I was very surprised it had been revived, especially as the ‘white first world er goes native’, even done with sensitivity, feels even more problematic now. I remember one of the episodes of his Amazon series had an episode where his producer became seriously ill on location, and the thing that struck me was just how many people were on that shoot. You are presented with ‘solitary English guy joins in with tribe for weeks’, and while I’d expected there to be a camera person, and a sound person and maybe one other person with him, but there must have been fifteen or twenty. The real oddity for the ‘tribe’ must be not so much one ex-Commando going native than the other people we don’t see on camera.

I think BP had reinvented himself as an indigenous rights person and made a documentary that didn’t get much attention, so maybe going back to something that worked? I also read a slightly odd interview where he said he’d tried to live polyamorously with some Swedish witches in Wales…?

I haven't heard about that - will have to look it up! and see if I can join

Surprised to see him back on the BBC, he disappeared from the BBC after his last one on the Amazon where he did a lot of drugs and seemed off his nut completely by the end, I’m sure he’d argue it was all part of him enjoying the culture, but it was not a good look!

This was the interview. I may have hallucinated the polyamorous bit, but he was definitely setting up a commune in Wales until the Swedes said nope…😀

https://cutcher.co.uk/vault/interview-bruce-parry

Thank you!

He lives in rural Wales now. He was in a poly amory relationship for quite a long time but is now single.

His whole previous series just seemed to be about him getting the bbc to pay for him to take drugs. I also can't believe he's back, doing it again.

Not that long after the 1st series, I saw him out clubbing in Ibiza. Guess what? He was absolutely spangled.

The interview I linked above has lots about his theories on using drugs for enlightenment and to improve MH.