Cannibal Tours

"There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it."

Cannibal Tours is a 1988 documentary film about European and American tourists in Papua New Guinea, directed by filmmaker and expert wanderer Dennis O'Rourke.

It's top commentary on tourism, ethnocentrism and 'post'-colonialism. Watch it before you take your next trip into somebody else's neighborhood.

The people of this area of the Sepik River who're featured in this film were originally made famous in the west by anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who studied " "Iatmul" society and rituals in the late 1930s.

It's hard to overestimate the value of the various contributions of Mead and Bateson to the advancement of 20th century humanism, and the people of this area should be acknowledged for their enormous influence on both of these big-brain thinkers, and as a result, on the whole of modern Western thought.