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One big point is, he wasn't re-creating, he was creating, from his ideas.
One big point is, he wasn't re-creating, he was creating, from his ideas.
Every beginner at anthropology, every amateur at paleontology, imagines you can predict prehistoric life from say Kalahari Bushmen.
FALSE.
FALSE.
The Bushmen of the Kalahari developed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle only within the last 400 years, in response to invasions by Bantu peoples.
I have no idea how long Hadzabe have been hunter-gatherers; at the very least, at least 400 years; maybe far longer. But they do not know
For the Hadzabe, it was always like this for them; but oral histories, group- and individual-memories can be very misleading. So who knows?
Tony Hillerman & Martin Cruz Smith have each written about attempts @ recreating old Navajo & Hopi lifestyles; the same considerations apply
illegal bushmeat (poached animals) trade is very big - including in London, England. Flown in, like qat used to be
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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Like qat agriculture is destroying the Yemen & society, b/c aridification, loss of water, so too will poaching destroy some African nations
The problem for all those like John is, it's *NOT* just local villagers doing poaching. It's big, powerful Chinese and Vietnamese mafias.
One day all elephants will be gone in that area. Tourism will simply stop. I guess the villagers will then think it's always been like that
In other words, they are destroying future & present prosperity in the name of identity (hey, Farage!) & of #ProsperityGospel, highly ironic
John, as guide, found it much more understandable when I photographed big things, not small things, like this colobus monkey in mid-flight 
Colobus monkey again, all on that same day as meeting John the guide, the butterfly, the ants and so on.
Everyone can understand photoing big fluffy things like a colobus monkey. Few understand the regrets of rejecting an elephant-dung spliff.
Next time I probably won't reject such a spliff; though I continue to be wary of all parasites and infections. Same colobus again.
Tree-snake, a tiny one. You can also see the end of its tail. Again on that same day of all of that true story.
Same tree-snake. It was tiny. And far away, and skittery.
A kind of kingfisher, again on that same day.
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