Title
El Etnografo / Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales ; Fortunato Films presenta ; guioÌn y direccioÌn, Ulises Rosell ; produccioÌÂn general, Pablo Rey.
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).
In Spanish, English, and WichiÌ (Mataco). Optional subtitles in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian.
Summary
John Palmer arrived in a WichiÌ community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a WichiÌ woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble English, WichiÌ, and Spanish words. As the legal advisor of the Lapacho Mocho community, and as a part of the family, he works to obtain Qatu's freedom, a member of the WichiÌ community who has been in jail for 5 years waiting for an oral hearing on a charge of abusing his wife's daughter. The film gains depth and impact from its more intimate domestic interludes involving John's wife Tojweya their young children - including a baby only weeks old. So while Palmer has achieved considerable eminence in his field, winning the Royal Anthropological Institute's Lucy Mair Medal in 2009, his immersion into WichiÌ culture, history and customs has become much more than a matter of academic ethnography.