Tribe

Documentary series following former British Royal Marine Bruce Parry as he visits a number of remote tribes around the world, spending a month living and interacting with each society.

Genre: Documentary,

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Type: tv

Season: 3

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 2005-01-03

Rating: 7.6

Season 1 - Tribe
2005-01-03
Location: Northeast India Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in the Himlayas in hunting, eating rats and sacrificial rituals.
2005-01-10
Location: Ethiopia Living in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have a powerful assurance in their culture.
2005-01-17
Location: West Papua Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives.
2005-01-24
Location: Gabon The Babongo people of Gabon take powerful hallucinogens which send them on a life-threatening, three day trip. Bruce Parry undergoes the initiation and finds it has some terrifying side effects.
2005-01-31
Location: Mongolia The Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family for their arduous winter migration.
2005-02-07
Location: Venezuela The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe, eats the same food as them and takes part in a dramatic shamanistic festival.

Season 2 - Tribe
2006-01-03
Location: Ethiopia His first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours. Parry wants to find out what they've done to deserve their fearsome reputation.
2006-01-10
Location: Ethiopia He continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young men prove themselves by jumping over a line of cattle. Bruce is challenged to join the ritual.
2006-01-17
Location: Ethiopia Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a terrifying crocodile hunt.

Season 3 - Tribe
2007-08-21
Location: Brazil Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve their culture.
2007-08-21
Location: Russia Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the frozen tundra of Northern Siberia, spending a month with a brigade of Nenet reindeer herders during their winter migration. The herders travel hundreds of miles in temperatures that can drop to -40.
2007-09-04
Location: Solomon Islands He sails to the island of Anuta, a tiny tropical outpost in the South Pacific, one of the most isolated communities on Earth.
2007-09-11
Location: Tanzania Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. He is forced to face his biggest fear and put his hand into a bees' nest to gather wild honey.
2007-09-18
Location: Bhutan Bruce Parry treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people.
2007-09-27
Location: Sarawak, Borneo Bruce Parry treks into the jungles in search of the last nomadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose forest home is in the process of being cut down around them and whose traditional way of life is about to disappear forever.