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Tribal Wives

Project Summary

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Genre
Documentary
Featured Content
Culture, Human Interest, Remote Wilderness, Traditional Knowledge, Tribe
Islands
Sumatra
Regions
Mentawai Islands
Narrator

Paul McGann

Talent

Andy Wraith

Producers

Director

Joseph Maxwell

Camera Operators

Other Crew

Created By

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FORMAT

TV Series

RELEASED

2007

EPISODE

S1E6

TITLE

Mentawai/Indonesia

Overview

Six women are given the opportunity to travel to some of the most remote parts of the world and experience life with a tribe in this new series for BBC Two. Like many women today, juggling with the pressures of Western life from careers to home and family, all the women think something is missing. By spending time with tribes in which women's roles are very different, they hope they can find some answers and, in doing so, change their own lives. The series provides a unique and intimate insight into the lives of women in tribes around the world, from the Amazon to sub-Saharan Africa. For the six Western women, it proves to be a life-changing experience as they immerse themselves into living as a tribal woman in some of the world's most remote and beautiful locations.

In This Episode

The Mentawai live deep in the jungle on a remote island off the coast of Indonesia - a monogamous tribe where women are tattooed and sharpen their teeth. Their lives are dominated by the spirit world and male sikerei, or witch doctors, watch over the village. Living with them for the next month is 38-year-old Andy Wraith. Andy is deeply-driven. Not happy with just being a dentist, she's also qualified as a doctor and an anaesthetist. She has run marathons, rowed for her university and fenced for Britain. But she realises that she has a problem. In her cluttered and successful world, she seems to have forgotten herself. Amongst the Mentawai, high-flying Andy is adopted as a daughter of the tribe, and is forced to revaluate just what success means.

Jungle Run Production Services

JRP blazed trail with a Mentawai tribe, convinced them to adopt a Brit, boiled their esoteric culture into a Production Bible, and coordinated a remote, month-long shoot for this BAFTA-nominated series.

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