Comments on: Tristes Tropiques

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:09 +0000

The Google film doesn’t work anymore, but can be found on http://www.documen.tv/ with english subtitles.

Cheers

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The Influence of Claude Lévi-Strauss - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:38:24 +0000

[…] documentary about “Tristes Tropiques.” The whole documentary can be seen online — in French or in English — and a short trailer for the film, with English subtitles, is available on the […]

By: Rhonda R Shearer

Rhonda R Shearer — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:05:20 +0000

FYI For the Record–StinkyJournalism.org sent local indigenous scholars to interview Henep Isum, Daniel Wemp and others in the Southern Highlands …I have not been to PNG yet.

Thanks,
Rhonda

By: Joanna Kirkpatrick

Joanna Kirkpatrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:41:30 +0000

There is another sense of tristes tropiques, and that is the lawsuit by two Papua New Guinea men against Jared Diamond: “Daniel Wemp and Henep Isum file a summons and sue for 10 million dollars in the Supreme Court of the State of New York–charge famed UCLA scientist and best-selling author Jared Diamond and Advance Publications (aka The New Yorker magazine and Times-Picayune newspaper) with defamation, April 20, 2009.

The suit follows on an article about tribal revenge practices that Diamond published in the New Yorker (April 21, 2008), claiming that he lied about their killing people and made up other material.
The owner of stinkyjournalism.org went to New Guinea in July of 2008 to investigate.
The whole sorry tale can be found on her website:
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-149.php

Excerpt:
“Henep Isum is not paralyzed in a wheelchair with a spinal injury, as Diamond claimed. He and Daniel Wemp, Diamond’s World Wildlife Fund driver in 2001-2002, and the only source for The New Yorker’s revenge story in Papua New Guinea, as well as dozens of tribal members and police officials, deny Diamond’s entire tale about the bloody Ombal and Handa war, calling it “untrue.”