''Magical Death'' is a documentary film by anthropologist

Napoleon Chagnon Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon (27 August 1938 – 21 September 2019) was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagn ...

, that explores the role of the shaman within the

Yanomamo The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. Etymology The ethnonym ''Yanomami' ...

culture, as well as the close relationship shamanism shares with politics within their society. Chagnon and frequent collaborator Tim Asch allegedly disagreed over the content of the film, when Asch objected to its graphic depictions of the Yanomami, engaging in symbolic death and cannibalism. The film was awarded the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon.

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'Reviewed by Eric Almquist in American Anthropologist Vol. 77, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), p. 179'

Reviewed on page 17 of Robert Borofsky's ''Yanomami: The fierce controversy and what we can learn from it''

1973 films Yanomami in film Anthropology documentary films Documentary films about death American documentary films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language documentary films {{US-documentary-film-stub

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