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    Analysis of “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” Richard Lee’s piece‚ “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari‚” describes his experience living with the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in south central Africa‚ but it does more than just reiterate a three year stint with a native African tribe. It also serves as documentation of another instance of how different societies of people distinguish themselves from one another with certain customs and differences in how they conduct themselves socially.

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    Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Borshay Lee Writing Essay Krystal Webb Sociology 111 Grade: Freshman Eating Christmas in the Kalahari I. Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to talk about the early nineteenth century‚ when the London Missionary Society brought Christmas to southern Tswana. The idea of Christmas was spread Through all of the Kalahari Desert .Richard ‚ who went by the Bushmen name given to him Ontah bought an ox for Christmas to share with the Bushmen

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    Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Eating Christmas in the Kalahari is an interesting story of how ethnographer‚ Richard Borshay Lee‚ exploring the culture of the local !Kung Bushmen natives in the Kalahari Desert‚ experiences a cultural misinterpretation which caused him so much grief and concern‚ it almost led to him backing out of his lengthy three year study. Lee nearing the end of his study‚ decided to supply the meat for the Christmas feast as a parting gift. Bushmen take this meal extremely

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    The article Eating Christmas In The Kalahari by Richard Borshay Lee reveals to its readers the topic of the life of Bushmen tribes in the Africa. The author describes his experience of life among the Bushmen. Moreover‚ he shares the lesson that he got from the representatives of this tribal group. This situation helped the article’s author to open for himself the principles regulating the social relations of this group of people and to better understand the value of social concepts in the life of

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    Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” by anthropologist Richard Lee demonstrates many more concepts in sociology. In the article Lee is doing fieldwork in the Kalahari desert observing the hunting and gathering practices among the !Kung (Ju/’hoansi). Lee experiences many times of cultural misunderstandings related to naïve realism‚ cultural shock‚ and also not fully understanding what is culturally and ethically appropriate. He learns a very valuable lesson when‚ in his eyes‚ has a perfect idea for

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    Christmas in the Kalahari Kristyna Ondo Ivy Tech Community College Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Eating Christmas in the Kalahari was a very interesting story based on Richard Borshay Lee’s experiences in southern Africa. After reading it‚ I realized the Bushman tribe with their strong traditions was a perfect example of Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity. Thank you Gesture All of the parts of the story started to come together in the end for me as well as it did for /ontah

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    I have written this paper to better understand the !Kung San tribe. After reading Robert Borshay Lee’s article “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari”‚ my findings are that d   Status is defined as “a term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society” (Schaefer‚ 100). Different statuses in a society invoke different reactions. For instance‚ in America the president is the highest status that a person can have. The president

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    Running Head: KALAHARI2 In the article “Eating Christmas in the Kalahri” by Richard Borshay Lee‚ he tells aboutwhat he learned living with the !Kung Bushmen for three years. Richard Borshay Lee is a socialanthropologist who missed a great life lesson while studying this hunting-and-gathering society.In this Gemeinschaft community‚ they worked together to teach this anthropologist somethingimportant to their people yet he was very unaware of their intentions in the beginning. Althoughhe thought

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    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

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    Using research (eating Christmas in the Kalahari) explain how social actors give meanings to their actions through social interactions. Also consider how this can lead to cultural misunderstanding. In ‘Eating Christmas in the Kalahari’ Richard Lee kills an Ox for Christmas dinner. Richard kills a big ox for the tribe to eat on Christmas but instead of being greeted with the tribe saying well done for killing such a big ox like he clearly expects he is greeted with tribesmen telling him that the

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