Tribal Wives
A revelatory new series from Diverse Productions, as part of the new Autumn season on BBC TWO television.
Six British women are given the opportunity to travel to some of the most remote parts of the world and experience life as “tribal wives”.
The series sees the women give up their everyday lives to spend a month living with some of the world’s most remote tribes – in Tanzania, Namibia, Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Ethiopia – and acting as a “second wife” by shadowing a tribesman’s real wife in her daily duties.
Viewers gain an insight into how tribal women really live in a way that has never been explored before. They can follow the progress of the tribal wife to see if she is accepted by the community and is able to rise to the challenges thrown at her by her new life – or whether she simply misses her Western lifestyle too much to truly benefit from the experience.