Sociological Analysis Of Cannibal Tours

The Sociology film “Cannibal Tours,” depicts a group of tourists visiting villages or places cut off from the rest of the synchronized world, at which native people live. The main reason they are trying to reach that kind of locations is that they finally want to see with their own eyes, all those things they read and saw in movies. At this particular film, wealthy tourists visit Sepia River, in the jungles of Papa New Guinea, near which inbred cannibal people live. We can clearly see two different perspectives of what the visitors think of the life the indigenous populations are having and on the other hand what the aboriginal peoples think of the modern people and their lives. Primitives opinion about tourists is evident they believe that they are friendly and plentiful, but they do not want

In contrast, when tourists visit constantly ask to enter and take pictures, this shows that times have changed, nowadays the visitors respect more the places they are visiting without plundering their memorials. On the other hand, it is a constant reminder to the local people of what they had and what they have lost. Even though the locals charge each visitor with a camera that enters the spirit house, it does not make up for the lost history. As a matter of fact, the missionaries did not affect the New Guineans only by destroying one of their memorials. They tried to make them transition to the modern at the time world by suggesting them to wear Western-style clothing. Conversely, the tourists wear bikinis and sometimes try to mock the locals.It is conflicting that both sides sought to fit in through clothing. The fact though is that when tourists leave they will change their clothes again to normal, but locals will still wear the Western-style clothing. This proves that missionaries have influenced natives