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1 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?

2 Questions Doing 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?

3 Themes to consider while watching the film:
Colonialism Ethnocentrism Cultural particularism (relativism) Cultural change Culture as contested.

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