A series of five films about ways of life in different parts of the world.
2: The Panare, Scenes from the Frontier
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There are 2.000 Penare Indians living in Venezuela. As a group they have been very fortunate.
Both they and their way of life have remained intact when all over South America other groups of Indians have been wiped out or, at best, changed forever, through their contact with European settlers.
The Panare are hunters and have coexisted peacefully with the Spanish-speaking cattle herders who share their territory. Now things are changing. Roads are being driven through, a huge mine is planned, and there are more and more cattle.
Unless the Panare are protected by legal title to their traditional hunting and fishing grounds, one more group of the continent s original inhabitants will fall victim to the process of 'national development'.
Anthropologist PAUL HENLEY Narrator WILLIAM BOYDE Photography
MAURICE FISHER Sound ROGER LONG
Film editor IAN PITCH Series producers
CHRIS CURLING and MELISSA L DAVIES BBC Bristol