Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site petrus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!mwg From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.nlang.africa Subject: Re: Two films on the !Kung Message-ID: <594@petrus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 10:26:40 EDT Article-I.D.: petrus.594 Posted: Wed Sep 25 10:26:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:48:41 EDT References: <539@im4u.UUCP> <647@rtech.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.movies:7769 net.nlang.africa:130 ++ > A person would have to be an idiot to see this film, and come away thinking > he had learned something about the Bushmen and their living conditions... > Jeff Lichtman I may be an idiot, and I admit that the lifestyle of the bushmen was treated superficially, but can someone tell me what errors lie in the following impression of the bushmen: 1) They live in the Kalahari as semi-nomads in small family groups. 2) They are basically peaceful. 3) They do not recognize private property. 4) They are largely unexposed to the modern world. 5) They have a 'primitive' polytheistic religion which includes the belief that the gods provide all good things for them. 6) They dress like that. 7) Their language has a lot of clicks in it. 8) They can survive in a harsh climate (as portrayed) with only a bow and arrow and some home-made tranquilizer. I can see problems with (4) because the existance of such a film contradicts it. They portray only the ones who are untouched, which may be a very small number of people. Otherwise, this is a lot more than I knew about them before. Another point, did anyone notice in the scene with the school teacher in her office job, there was a conversation between her and a black man (working in a seemingly respectable job) where the dialog was changed. The words didn't match the lips, but only in that scene. I wonder what it was originally. -Mark Garrett Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com