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The story of Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the greatest tales in anthropology. Almost a 100 years ago his short visit to some remote islands in Papua New Guinea, turned into a four-year odyssee. Here Malinowski started a revolution in anthropology. He left behind the colonial settlements, to live with the natives. His experience would overturn the victorian notion of the simple savage, and transform the way we look at our own society. But with the publication of his private diaries in 1967, a complex truth about the man began to come out. Who really was Malinowski? And what drove him to become the founder and hero of modern social anthropology?

First Film was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the Kalahari Desert. It is intimate in style, very carefully filmed, with a wealth of practical information about the material culture and structure of Ju/’hoan (!Kung Bushmen) hunter-gatherer society. The film allows viewers to see some of John Marshall’s earliest film footage and provides an interesting comparison with the more sophisticated shooting found in his later work.

Eduard Punset charla con el antropólogo Richard Wrangham, de la Universidad de Harvard, en busca de los orígenes de nuestra inteligencia y de los comportamientos más humanos. En clave de humor, la sitcom “Homo’s y mujeres” intenta destacar los conceptos claves explicados por Wrangham.

A Personal View of the Human Species by Desmond Morris. This episode focuses on the planet’s most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of language. Some gestures and expressions are so ingrained that we have not been able to erase them from our vocabulary