Thanks to the magic of Netflix and some random searching around in the Documentary genre, my roomies and I watched "Keep the River on Your Right" a story about an 80 year-old, gay anthropologist from New York (Tobias Schneebaum) who works on a cruise ship in Papua New Guinea and then travels back to the Amazon in Peru where he had lived for 6 months with an indigenous village aparticipated in a raid of another village and then ate human flesh of the conquered tribe. Needless to say it was an interesting movie and easily leads to debates about cultures, globalization, morality, etc... one of the questions of the night was whether a previous pretty isolated village necessarily will lose its culture as the result of contact with a person from "westernized civilization."
Here is a site with a summary and the trailer:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/keep-the-river/
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