Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Analysis Jeffrey Scott O'Kelley February 17, 2013 Ivy Tech Community College SOCI111-13A-A1-201230 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari serves as documentation of an instance of how different societies of people distinguish themselves from one another with certain customs and differences in how they conduct themselves. Richard Lee describes his experience living with the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in south central Africa, but it does more than just chronicle a three year stint with a native African tribe. It highlights the misunderstandings that are commonplace when it comes to living among an unfamiliar group of people. The primary obstacle that Lee encounters is a misinterpretation between him and the tribe on why he isn’t receiving the appreciation that he believes he deserves, for giving the gift of such a glorious meal. While it may not seem like it at first, the conflict that arises between the tribesman and Lee symbolizes the disparity between our society and the tribesman in the Kalahari Desert.
sElcidana Camacho ENG101 February 9, 2012 “The I and The We Inside Of Me” Traditions are part of the culture of a nation and its people’s identification. An important tradition in the United States is the celebration of Thanksgiving. This event occurs on the last Thursday of November, and it is the day when people travel from different parts of the country leaving behind for one day the individual “I” to enjoy an invaluable “we”. The police, the nurse, the teacher and the delinquent will stop their professional occupations to join Grandma in the kitchen to stuff a huge turkey and the rest of the meal. During the celebration, the family will tell (as every year) the same stories about the family; laughers, mockeries, craziness and caring are all part of the celebration passing this legacy to the next generation.
In the article Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Lee, the !Kung Bushmen practice shaming the meat in the form of public ridicule as a form of social leveling mechanism toward Richard Lee. When Lee gave the !Kung an ox as a Christmas gift for their assistance, the !Kung responded by insulting the gift and said that if Lee was expecting them to eat the bag of bones and that the ox is thin to the point of death even though the ox was big and fat. Although the ox was very large in size and enough to feed everyone in the tribe, the !Kung displeased with the gift in order to balance out the social equality. The !Kung jokes that they would boil down the horns for soup because there was no meat on the ox. The !Kung did not express gratitude for the ox from Lee because the !Kung believe that the gift was arrogant.
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