How Did Richard Borshay Lee Eat Christmas With The Kalahari

In chapter 2 “Eating Christmas with the Kalahari,” Richard Borshay Lee writes about his experiences in Kalahari. He decides that he wants to part of their Christmas tradition by slaughtering an ox for the tribe. He wanted to do this to say thank you for letting him study them for the past years. He wanted to find the biggest ox and does. When he shows the tribe the ox he was going to slaughter for Christmas, they all laughed at him and told him the ox was indeed big, but it was also old and thin. They told him that they will go to bed hungry for Christmas and will not have enough energy to dance. He felt terrible and thought the ox would have plenty of meat. When Christmas came, they slaughtered the ox and there was plenty of meat for