Terapeutiska utflykter

Modernitet, kärlek och självhjälp i samtida "tribe-tv"

Abstract

Narratives about Europeans entering so called pre-modern cultures have a long tradition, and "tribe-tv" based on arranged visits from Europeans to "the world's remotest tribes" has become a growing genre today. In the documentary Tribal Wives, six British women were described as experiencing cultures that had "hardly changed in centuries" and getting one month to reflect over their habits and priorities in life. In search for contrasts between female lives, love and heterosexual contracts the program turns into self-representations based on Eurocentric imaginations. Tribal Wives becomes a therapeutic journey (set by BBC) aiming to heal modern souls, an adventure to pre-historic land with forgotten truths for the modern woman to bring back to the future.