Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
3 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
59 mins
Will travels into the jungles of West Papua to meet the Korowai tribe and is shocked to find that the business-savvy tribe are offering tourists and film-makers an 'authentic' experience of their lifestyle complete with price list.
Episode 2
59 mins
Will planned to film how the Korowai are doing a year later, but only now realizes his crew didn't get an accurate recording of the village life. In fact only the senior brothers Haup and Halap still lead a traditional hunter-gatherer life, even his host, their adopted son August, only takes off his modern cloths for 'scientific tourists', actually leads a different life in the post-stone age village. there modernity is obvious in everything, yet some things still don't change, such as men keeping away from impure young mothers.
Episode 3
59 mins
A year after the second, last-planed visit, Will's team returns to the Korowai tribe, curious how his friend fare. It turns out modernization went further and faster then he realized last time already, and continuous rapidly. Only the two seniors still actually love in the rain forest, and their decaying tree house won't be communally repaired anymore, so they move to an abandoned camera crew cabin, near the village where all the others now live. Many traditions are abandoned or only serve to 'entertain' visitors, who contributed more then feared to the culture's decay. August turns out an incarnation of ingrate greed, pretending he wasn't properly paid and demanding ever more excessive sums, for a boat and more, even resorting to blackmail under threat.