Magical Death

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| caption = | director = Napoleon Chagnon and Tim Asch | producer = | writer = | narrator = | starring = | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Documentary Educational Resources | released = {{Film date|1973}} | runtime = 29 min. | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}

'''''Magical Death''''' is a documentary film by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, that explores the role of the shaman within the Yanomamo culture, the film also examines 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/09/28/yanomamo/index.html |title=Macho anthropology - Salon.com |access-date=2010-02-18 |archive-date=2010-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306064605/http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/09/28/yanomamo/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The film was awarded the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.jstor.org/pss/674159 'Reviewed by Eric Almquist in American Anthropologist Vol. 77, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), p. 179'] * [https://www.publicanthropology.net/e-book/download/yanomami-front-matter.pdf Reviewed on page 17 of Robert Borofsky's ''Yanomami: The fierce controversy and what we can learn from it''] * [http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/09/28/yanomamo/index.html ''Macho Anthropology'', an article written by Juno Gregory for Salon.com that discusses the filmmakers' differences over the film.]

Category:1973 films Category:Yanomami in film Category:Anthropology documentary films Category:Documentary films about death Category:American documentary films Category:1973 English-language films Category:1973 American films Category:English-language documentary films