Questions Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

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Questions Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

• Who are the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert?
• How did the cultural values and behaviours of the
  !Kung clash with those of the anthropologist?
• How and why did misunderstanding arise in the
  ethnographic story of Eating Christmas in the
  Kalahari?

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QuestionsDoing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo.

• Who are the Yanomamo?
• What is cultural Shock?
• According to Chagnon what is the purpose of he
  violence exhibited by the Yanomamo?
• How is life organised in a Yanomamo village?
• What are genealogies and how were they useful for
  Chagnon?

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Themes to consider while watching the film

• Colonialism
• Ethnocentrism
• Cultural particularism (relativism)
• Cultural change
• Culture as contested.