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Article Study: "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"
• Author: Richard Borsay Lee
• Title: "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"
• Year: 1969
• Particulars: from The Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 78, No. 10, December Issue
• URL: http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanned%20Documents/Intro/lee_eating_christmas_kalahari_14_eoa.pdf
The article is an ethnographer retelling of the experience of Lee of the !Kung Bushmen, a particular tribe native to the Kalahari who call Namibia, Botswana and Angola their homes. Lee shares that having worked with the tribe, studying their customs for years, he wanted to show his appreciation for them one Christmas by purchasing for them (and going through trouble to acquire it) a fat ox to feast on. Upon receipt, the tribesmen mocked his gift, calling it thin and sickly. For Lee, it felt like an insult and wondered why they behaved that way. He concludes and proposes that being a society that does encourages pride to make everybody feel equal, they mocked his gift in a bid to not feel inferior to his wealth in comparison to theirs, a way of taking Lee down a peg or ...
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