Abstract
In the last two chapters we dipped our toes into some of the deeper issues anthropologists address, but we also glimpsed a little of the way an anthropological approach can contribute to an understanding of subjects of wider interest. In this final chapter we take up this theme again in reference to the contribution anthropologists can make and have made to the study of economics and the environment. While doing this, we shall draw together elements of anthropological work that we have considered throughout the book, and demonstrate how a good understanding of social (and economic) life depends on an understanding of the systems of classification and notions of exchange which we introduced at the outset.
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Bushmen of the Kalahari (John Marshall and Robert Young, 1974), a National Geographic film, is the personal account of film-maker John Marshall, son of the anthropologist Lorna Marshall, when he returns to find the people of the Kalahari among whom he lived 20 years earlier. He has since made several other films about these people.
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The Gods must be Crazy is a somewhat overly dramatic feature film about the same Bushmen of the Kalahari and the encounter of one of them with life in a neighbouring African war.
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty), one of the earliest ethnographic films, depicts the life of an Inuit man and his family.
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Hendry, J. (1999). Economics and the Environment. In: An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27281-5_13
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