Tribe with Bruce Parry, review: a fascinating (and drug-fuelled) Amazonian adventure
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Bruce Parry has foraged for ants, waded through a river that is home to piranhas, encountered a deadly snake, and eaten the giant larvae of the palm weevil beetle ('I mean, it's got a lot of flavour, it's a bit like custard'). But all this is just killing time. What he really wants to do, because this is Bruce Parry, is get off his nut.
Parry was known, in his original Tribe series, for tripping on hallucinogens. After a near-20-year hiatus, he's back in Tribe with Bruce Parry (BBC Two), living with three indigenous tribes in remote corners of the world.
The first episode features the Waihama in Colombia and, what do you know, they have an ayahuasca ceremony. It is, he explains, at the heart of their connection to the forest and he wants to know how. Emetophobics should avoid this programme like the plague.
Preparations for the ceremony involve drinking a green concoction to cleanse the system. This leads to copious amounts of on-screen projectile vomiting. Parry also has to snort chilli mixed with river water and eat cold, boiled frog. He does all of this without complaint, because he is a good guest.
After drinking the ayuhuasca – known to the Waihama as 'yagé' – Parry gets very high. This is actually the least interesting part of the programme, because he only says, 'Woaaahh' and, 'It's just beautiful' and, 'I'm having another rush', all while someone plays the pan pipes and several others throw up in the corner.
The Waihama live a life filled with natural dangers – 'yesterday a jaguar ate my mother's dog,' a villager mentions – but they have such a connection to their surroundings and to their ancestors that they feel content here. It is fascinating to see how these tribes survive and preserve their way of life while the modern world goes on around them.
Some scenes might shock Western eyes, as when an 11-year-old girl from the Mucaba tribe in southern Angola has her bottom teeth knocked out with a rock as a mark of beauty. Then again, perhaps the Mucaba would be appalled to watch women having Botox, filler and salmon sperm injected into their faces on Instagram.
In the second episode, a tribal chief in southern Angola gives Parry a gift to welcome him. It's a goat, which he has to kill through suffocation. Parry is clearly upset by this but does as he's asked by his host. He earns his place among each tribe through respectfulness and hard work. It's good to have him back.
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