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You're thinking about the Yanomamö. Their culture has been described for example by Kenneth Good in his book Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomamo.
He is a somewhat controversial anthropologist who visited a Yanomami tribe for years, often living with them for months at a time. He ended up absorbing a lot of their lifestyle and married a Yanomami teenager.
The Yanomamo do not have a similar concept for privacy as westerners do. They eat/live/sleep/copulate/laugh/cry/talk/defecate/rape pretty much openly. If others see them then they just happen to see them. Sex was basically done in a hammock and everyone could hear them and see them in the campfire light if they wanted to look. Apparently no one really cared. It was just stuff that happened with married people.
They don't really understand the whole concept of setting up appearances. They lie about other Yanomamo for social/political gain but they don't understand why westerners do the opposite of what they want to.