Cannibal Tours

I was not able to present on Wed. but I studied Cannibal Tours for my paper. The film was over the interraction between western tourists and native people in New Guinea.

The majority of the film was very frustrating for me. The tourists would speak of how these people needed help with the way they lived their live. Very primitive, but at the same time the tourists would low ball and haggle prices for homemade goods that the natives were selling. The tourists would also stop these people in the middle of their choirs or everyday activities and would have them pose as the toursists took pictures. I really thought the tourists were treating them as objects.

Overall I thought the film was very eye opening to the way many westerners may view these people, but very frustrating.