Joe Leahy's Neighbors in this documentary are the members of the Ganiga tribe of Papua, New Guinea. Joe, a half-breed member of the tribe, has completely adapted to white ways and has become a very wealthy coffee plantation owner, whose tribesmen work for him and (some would say) are exploited by him. Joe sees them as childlike and in need of protection and instruction in the ways of the greater world's money civilization. For instance, they don't know anything about land ownership, banks, and so on. No one in the documentary devotes a lot of time talking about the destructive effects cash economies have had on tribal subsistence economies all over the world, or on hitherto pristine forests and jungles. The demise of the Ganiga's tribal pattern of life is a foregone conclusion to the documentarians, and the only question left to consider is how best to enable them to adapt to their changed circumstances.
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