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In a sale at the Drouot Auction Rooms in Paris, on Dec. 13, 1999, there was an object catalogued in the "Natural History" category. It aroused curiosity as well as disgust: it was the head of an English missionary, shrunken by the Jivaro Indians of the Amazon. Among the hundreds of Amazon tribes, the Jivaros have a special place in our collective imagination. Their reputation rests on a single aspect of their culture, an object that has been the source of a dubious attraction: the shrunken head or "tsantsa." By examining the history of this western fantasy with the aid of the Shuar Indians (as they call themselves), we will try to understand the deeper meaning of this ritual, which has nothing to do with received notions.

France - 2002 - 1 h 05 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Yves de Peretti Script Yves de Peretti Camera Yves de Peretti Sound César Salazar Editing Yves de Peretti, Dominique Faysse, Nadine Tarbouriech Music Martin Wheeler

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