Krippendorf's Tribe

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.

• based on novel or book
• single parent
• professor
• expedition
• circumcision
• college
• family relationships
• anthropology
• jungle
• monkey
• lecture
• lost tribe
• faked footage
• hoax
• papua new guinea
• new guinea
• circumcision ritual