by Ross Bowden
The documentary Cannibal Tours, by the self-described ‘existential anarchist’ Australian film maker Dennis O’Rourke, has had a significant impact on the anthropological world since it was released almost forty years ago in 1988. It is widely regarded as a ‘classic’ in the field of visual anthropology, especially in the sub-field of the ethnography of tourism, and has been the subject of a substantial commentary in the literature.
In the second half of the film, O’Rourke interviews an elderly . . .
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