The Hadza: Among the last hunter-gatherers
A few peoples still live as hunter-gatherers, and two of them have been studied intensively: the Hadza people of Tanzania and the !Kung San (also known as the Jun/twasi) of the Kalahari Desert. Here’s an intriguing review of a book on the Hadza and how they live.
They seem to have omitted the Weinerites. Granted there are but a few surviving members along the Coney island plains and of course their distant predator cousins, the Arno-wards; But recently, they seem to be making a surprising resurgence, or would they fall into the Hunter – Predator category ?
Going back to the article I am always suspicious of these tribes when off camera. I have often noticed their extended family members in the background of the NATGEO documentaries , donning ‘Church donated-hand me down’ type of clothing. Obvious as to it’s origin, when you seem ‘pygmy stature’ amazon tribe members wearing T shirts with “Big is beautiful” emblazoned on them
Nick
14 June 2011 at 11:50 am
I’ve been told that there is no spot in Africa so remote that you don’t see some indigenous people wearing T-shirts and ball-caps advertising various first-world products and events…
LeisureGuy
14 June 2011 at 12:04 pm
That’s so true and although in a missionary sort of way it’s such a nice gesture of goodwill on their part – donating used clothing – I can’t stop picturing the proud volunteers looking at the NATGEO documentaries nudging their hubbies and saying “Look George ! that looks like Cindy’s sneakers we gave away last year…”
Personally, I find it rather demeaning to see such proud tribesmen and their families, relegated to dressing out of their cultural threads, thongs or leaves, tubing or nothing at all for that matter.
Sorry to get off topic…but you have averted to these issues in the past, America or the west insistent need to force Morals upon others.
Getting back on topic you may be very interested to read a fascinating and important peer reviewed study where much of it discusses the non prevalence of D II in the Hunter gatherer tribes –
Nutrition and Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus from an Anthropological Perspective
http://altmedrev.com/sobi2.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=266&sobi2Id=409
Nick
14 June 2011 at 1:19 pm