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Baka: People of the Forest

This is one of the all-time great visual anthropology pieces. It took the filmmakers two years to settle into a village of Pygmies and six months of warming up before they even began filming. All this care transforms exotic natives into next-door people. My favorite part is when the little boy tells his parent he wants them to send his newborn brother back from wherever it was that he came. Noble savages, this ain't.

-- KK

Baka: The People of the Forest
Directed by Phil Agland
1990, 54 min.
$20, VHS

Available from National Geographic

Posted on May 3, 2004 at 2:55 PM | Comments (1)



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I am a current undergrad student majoring in Social Work and its a requirement to take an Anthropology course and we are currently reading this book. I didn't know there was a movie and i don't think my Professor has any idea either. She is always showing us films so I will let her know that this film exists.
Amazing Piece by the way!

Posted by Gennifer White on April 8, 2009 at 12:47 PM


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