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"By exploring the values and different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, series aims to stimulate reflection and a look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies. Discusses why Western views of wealth have created a society of strangers while tribal cultures measure wealth through people not possessions."
"Disc 2, [pt. 3]. Mistaken identity. Explore the question of who you are and where your individual identity begins and ends through scenes taken from the family life of an abortion counselor in Toronto, a boy's initiation in the Brazilian Xavante tribe, a high school girl's attempted suicide, and an Indonesian Sumbanese tribesman's relationship to his dead relatives -- [pt. 4]. An ecology of mind. Learn how the Makuna of Columbia pass their sophisticated ecological awareness from generation to generation through complex myths and rituals. Understand how tribal peoples views' contrast with the evolutionary ideas handed down to the modern world from the Bible and from 19th century Darwinian theory."
"Disc 1, [pt. 1]. The shock of the other: through scenes of the decimation of the rainforest and interviews with indigenous people, discover why so much is at stake when modern industralism meets the tribal world -- [pt. 2]. Strange relations: Intimate scenes of Western societies and marriages in the tribal societies of Nepal and the plains of Niger show how individuals can discover a balance between personal desire and social needs in the context of a loving and nurturing family."
"A Poor Man Shames Us All:"
""Insights into tribal and traditional cultures of the world. Through their stories, begin a journey of discovering other way of seeing the world and new ways of understanding our own lives"--Container."@en
"Western world's desire to remake other societies into its own image has robbed our modern world of the gifts of other cultures. By exploring the values and the different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together this series aims to stimulate reflection and to look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we approach the next millennium."@en
"Designed to stimulate reflection and inspire a new look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we approach the millenium. Explores the values and different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together. Presents tribal peoples in the dignity of their own homes and captures their customs and ceremonies with extraordinary photography."
"Designed to stimulate reflection and inspire a new look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we approach the millenium. Explores the values and different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together. Presents tribal peoples in the dignity of their own homes and captures their customs and ceremonies with extraordinary photography."@en
"The Art of Living:"
"Disc 4, [pt. 7]. A poor man shames us all. Explore the alternative views of wealth and society that are exhibited in lives of tribal cultures. Trace the development of free market economics and explore how its characteristics contrast with tribal conceptions of wealth -- [pt. 8]. Inventing reality. Through tribal villages in Mexico and a cancer centre in Toronto, understand how the certainties of science can combine with natural conceptions of physical disease both in the tribal world of the shaman and in modern medical science."
"An Ecology of Mind:"
"The Shock of the Other:"
"Inventing Reality:"
"Touching the Timeless:"
"The Western world's desire to remake other societies into its own image has robbed our modern world of the gifts of other cultures. By exploring the values and the different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, this ten-part series aims to stimulate reflection and to look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we all approach the next millenium."@en
"At the Threshold:"
"Disc 5, [pt. 9]. The tightrope of power. Viewers contrast Western form of states to the practice of democracy through consensus. Witness the struggles of the Ojibwa, Cree and Mohawk tribes against the Canadian federal government. Understand how their visions can help us refine our definitions of democracy, pluralism and the state -- [pt. 10]. At the threshold. Travel to central France to explore the most perplexing dilemmas of the Western World - heart versus mind, body versus soul, the desires of the individual versus the needs of society. Through intimate views of family life in tribal and Western societies, understand why our survival as a species may now depend on the wisdom of our tribal past."
"Host David Maybury-Lewis journeys worldwide to capture the wisdom of tribal peoples before it and they are all gone, and finds that our survival may depend upon finding new ways to express the values of wisdom, compassion, and family held by them."@en
"Host David Maybury-Lewis journeys worldwide to capture the wisdom of tribal peoples before it and they are all gone, and finds that our survival may depend upon finding new ways to express the values of wisdom, compassion, and family held by them."
"Through personal documentaries of unforgettable characters, the MILLENNIUM series presents tribal peoples in the dignity of their own homes and captures their customes and ceremonies with extraordinary photography."
"Mistaken Identity:"
"By exploring the values and the different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, the modern world can learn as we approach the next millennium."@en
"By exploring the values and the different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, the modern world can learn as we approach the next millennium."
"A ten part, ten hour series which aims to stimulate reflection and to look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we all approach the next millenium."@en
"Strange Relations:"
"Disc 3, [pt. 5]. The art of living. Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon peoples of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. Meet an HIV-positive Canadian artist who shows viewers his way of connecting his art to the meaning of life and death -- [pt. 6]. Touching the timeless. Accompany the Huichol people of Mexico on their annual pilgrimage to collect peyote, the sacred food of the gods, and visit the house of a Navajo medicine man who invites the spirits into his world through sand painting, chanting, and 'walking in beauty'."
"The Tightrope of Power:"

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